Malloc_Leake

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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
Of course, you can't teach 6 year olds the same way you teach 12 year olds, their brains aren't even fully formed yet. That was already a given ;)
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
Yeah, there are just so many possibilities now. There is something wrong with your link, though.
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
Heh, no hurt feelings here and I don't think you really needed to make a throwaway account just to play devil's advocate. I guess "how do I quit my day job?" sounds a bit off when you put it like that. I recognize that m
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
I can't say I'm surprised by your experience, which is why I figured at most I would only teach a group of 5-6 kids at a time. Then they would each get individual attention while still being able to work together to solve problems
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
I am flattered by your interest, but I really am more interested in teaching kids in person, and with teaching aids like robotics kits that I can inspect for problems when the kids need help. I think kids that young need something they can
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
I actually stopped my own daycare's director today and she brought this exact approach up. She is going to try to get me in contact with a group of other instructors that do this at her location.
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
I actually am about to send an email to the local Youth Council of a city near mine for exactly this reason. I am going to ask them if they'd be interested in sponsoring me so that any kid who is interested could learn.
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
Wow, that is fantastic. Your kid is the type of kid I want to help create, one that is self motivated to learn how to do things on their own with computers, and will have a really easy time when college comes around (if they even need it to
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
Yeah, that seems like a good approach. Thanks for the link!
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Ask HN: How Would You Teach Kids Computer Science and Engineering Full Time?
16 points by Malloc_Leake 13y ago|24 comments
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by Malloc_Leake 13y ago
The remarkable thing is, everyone had already forgotten about how much they hate Whoever Parker until he wrote this. If he really wanted to be left alone he would have just shut up about it. This is just attention grabbing and trying to re-