I agree with everything you say, but I'm just talking about day #1 of algebra class ... pretty much just an inspirational show and demonstration that satisfying capabilities are within their reach
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:11 PM kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> No prior knowledge ... it's all on the teacher to be familiar enough to >> walk all over and essentially "drag them through" (the kids=them) the >> process of developing their own quick solar system model. It would be a >> good team-teaching lesson, one teacher on the white-board lecturing, and >> the other typing the python-translation of the lecture into code on a big >> screen. >> >> > I'm all for opt in on athletics like this, as elective activities. Like > sprints at a PyCon. Choose to go, choose which one. > > Time spent coding is time away from studying film theory or maybe > perfecting one's drawing or pole vaulting skills. > > If one wishes to use canned solar system simulators and not work for > hours, starting with transistors and designing one's own chips, that oughta > be allowed too. > > Multi-track, kid driven, more like a theme park. The rides are all there. > > If you think you're ready for the PyGame physics course (I was a VPython > avatar, did my hypertoons using it [1]), go for it, and you're only 14. > > Other people will postpone that lesson until 41. > > Sequencing is more up to them than to any nanny state.[2] > > Kirby > > [1] https://youtu.be/7Qzd0Uw-HCM (simple hypertoon in Visual Python) 40 > seconds, no sound > > [2] they say the "nana" in that 'House of Tomorrow' book is more fascist > than in the movie. The movie-makers cast an authentic Bucky fan who had > some of her own footage of being with the guy, which was perfect. To my > ears, they actually dubbed in Bucky's voice in those parts where we > presumably heard him (grainy old footage) -- sounded like an actor to me. > Doesn't matter much. Hollywood has its tricks. > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- ccosse.github.io
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