On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 3:07 PM, kirby urner <[email protected]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > To incentivize around the integrity of the individual makes for a > strong beginning, with protecting a company's perimeter, a team's, > a family's, a part of the follow-on logic. The code schools are looking > for ways to share about cyber-security and Protecting It is all about > protecting identity theft. > Protecting *against* identity theft I should have said, hah hah. Just to flesh out the picture a little more, here in the US we have rising concern that the conventional education system is falling short of aspirations, especially when it comes to "STEM" subjects. The "code school" phenomenon is somewhat amorphous and is typified by such as Codeacademy and FreeCodeCamp in cyberspace, and by brick and mortar schools on the ground. I've been working with a virtual school named O'Reilly School of Technology which shut down earlier this year, leaving some traces but not many. [1] Since then, I've been checking out the more "brick and mortar" implementations, where people actually show up for "boot camp" or whatever courses. Here's an album of photos giving some impressions of what that's been like for me: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/albums/72157664250599655 Since teaching Introduction to Programming (Accelerated), I've switched to attending evening free-for-all meetups, and networking through there. I have another album giving a view of what that's like: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kirbyurner/albums/72157664766721643 The age range is very wide. We get some high school aged refugees, concerned their home school curriculum is denying them access to the kinds of topics we teach. Kirby [1] http://archive.oreilly.com/oreillyschool/index.html -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
