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It must be so different going to school these days. I feel excited for our future kids!

psbp 13y ago
I remember going through the majority of my primary education in the 2000's and being dismayed by the gap between public school education and the resources of the internet. It was such a weird, and unfortunate, period of denial. Maybe we're still experiencing that chasm between the way that society functions and the power of the internet to enrich our lives, but it seems like we're definitely inching closer to my childhood idealizations.
- blubbi2 13y ago
  I'm currently doing my A levels in a small school in the Upper Palatinate. The problem is - at least in Germany - that some schools have to invest the money they get in fundamental thing only, like sanitary facilities. The school I'm attending doesn't even have WARM water AT ALL! NOWHERE! On the other side, there are new built schools that can invest their money in Smart Boards and video projectors. Another point is that most of the "old" teachers simply don't know how to use these fancy new things (including computers in general) and there are also teachers that are so fascinated by Facebook and BayernMoodle (http://www.bayernmoodle.de/ http://www.bayernmoodle.de/) that they more or less force their students to use it on weekends in order to give them exercises. More or less, when I tell my mother about the lessons (she went to the same school as I do), I often realize that sometimes neither the teachers nor the way eduction is being done changed all. I would be happy about new books, some on mine are far older than myself. Maybe others have different experiences, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
  - eru 13y ago
    Don't waste your time worrying about school too much. Make sure you get into things like https://www.deutsche-schuelerakademie.de https://www.deutsche-schuelerakademie.de or http://www.deutsche-juniorakademien.de http://www.deutsche-juniorakademien.de. (Their Alumni organisation (http://www.cde-ev.de/ http://www.cde-ev.de/) is actually open for everybody, and I can only recommend joining. https://mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ https://mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ is also worth a look.)
    - blubbi2 13y ago
      Wow! This is great! I've already been to a so-called "Ferienseminar für besonders begabte und interessierte Schülerinnen und Schüler", an event I've been invited to and which I can only recommend, but these links are great! Thank you! Since I'm doing an additional test, I'll try getting into some of these programmes.
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      - eru 13y ago
        Oh, none of these programmes are tests. If you a into that kind of thing, you should also compete in the Mathematik-Olympiade (and physics and chemistry olympiad, too). There are also Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik and Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, that are fun to take part in. Drop me a line (email in profile), if you want to learn more. I grew up in Germany, but ended up all over the world, currently I'm in Singapore.
snowbunny 13y ago
What's so exciting about running a browser on a artificially locked down and crippled OS where you're forced to upload everything to the cloud where you have minimal control over your data, instead of running it on Linux or even OS X or Windows?
- vezzy-fnord 13y ago
  This is what I would like to know, as well. But actually, even ignoring that, I don't see how giving kids free electronics is so exciting. Public school is heading towards obsolescence, and arbitrarily handing out gadgets to students demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of technological advancement and its role in education. This isn't any better than the state of California trying to patch its failure by handing out free iPads, although I guess it's more practical, given the poverty rate and extreme wealth disparity in India.

psbp 13y ago

I remember going through the majority of my primary education in the 2000's and being dismayed by the gap between public school education and the resources of the internet. It was such a weird, and unfortunate, period of denial. Maybe we're still experiencing that chasm between the way that society functions and the power of the internet to enrich our lives, but it seems like we're definitely inching closer to my childhood idealizations.

blubbi2 13y ago
I'm currently doing my A levels in a small school in the Upper Palatinate. The problem is - at least in Germany - that some schools have to invest the money they get in fundamental thing only, like sanitary facilities. The school I'm attending doesn't even have WARM water AT ALL! NOWHERE! On the other side, there are new built schools that can invest their money in Smart Boards and video projectors. Another point is that most of the "old" teachers simply don't know how to use these fancy new things (including computers in general) and there are also teachers that are so fascinated by Facebook and BayernMoodle (http://www.bayernmoodle.de/ http://www.bayernmoodle.de/) that they more or less force their students to use it on weekends in order to give them exercises. More or less, when I tell my mother about the lessons (she went to the same school as I do), I often realize that sometimes neither the teachers nor the way eduction is being done changed all. I would be happy about new books, some on mine are far older than myself. Maybe others have different experiences, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
- eru 13y ago
  Don't waste your time worrying about school too much. Make sure you get into things like https://www.deutsche-schuelerakademie.de https://www.deutsche-schuelerakademie.de or http://www.deutsche-juniorakademien.de http://www.deutsche-juniorakademien.de. (Their Alumni organisation (http://www.cde-ev.de/ http://www.cde-ev.de/) is actually open for everybody, and I can only recommend joining. https://mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ https://mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ is also worth a look.)
  - blubbi2 13y ago
    Wow! This is great! I've already been to a so-called "Ferienseminar für besonders begabte und interessierte Schülerinnen und Schüler", an event I've been invited to and which I can only recommend, but these links are great! Thank you! Since I'm doing an additional test, I'll try getting into some of these programmes.
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    - eru 13y ago
      Oh, none of these programmes are tests. If you a into that kind of thing, you should also compete in the Mathematik-Olympiade (and physics and chemistry olympiad, too). There are also Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik and Bundeswettbewerb Informatik, that are fun to take part in. Drop me a line (email in profile), if you want to learn more. I grew up in Germany, but ended up all over the world, currently I'm in Singapore.

snowbunny 13y ago

What's so exciting about running a browser on a artificially locked down and crippled OS where you're forced to upload everything to the cloud where you have minimal control over your data, instead of running it on Linux or even OS X or Windows?

vezzy-fnord 13y ago
This is what I would like to know, as well. But actually, even ignoring that, I don't see how giving kids free electronics is so exciting. Public school is heading towards obsolescence, and arbitrarily handing out gadgets to students demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of technological advancement and its role in education. This isn't any better than the state of California trying to patch its failure by handing out free iPads, although I guess it's more practical, given the poverty rate and extreme wealth disparity in India.