Small robots, Raspberry Pi, small drones: those are the things I’ve seen at high school level. The terrifying part is that the great majority of my 9th graders

Small robots, Raspberry Pi, small drones: those are the things I’ve seen at high school level. The terrifying part is that the great majority of my 9th graders are not very experienced with actual computers (laptops included). Their knowledge of computing extends no further than their phones, but because phones are so powerful, there’s nothing, particularly mysterious or compelling about computers. They were like magic boxes that you just had to figure out somehow when I was a kid.