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10/12/2016 6:34:08 PM
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Holy shit kids are smart these days
I just recently volunteered at my local elementary school to give back to a community that has given so much to me. First thing I saw when I got there was children learning coding. Yeah, that's right. a fourth grade class learning coding.
God damn I will never talk shit about the American education system again, at least not in my neighborhood.
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[quote]kids are smart these days[/quote]
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[quote]I just recently volunteered at my local elementary school to give back to a community that has given so much to me. First thing I saw when I got there was children learning coding. Yeah, that's right. a fourth grade class learning coding. God damn I will never talk shit about the American education system again, at least not in my neighborhood.[/quote] That doesn't really make kids smart... It just means the educational system is keeping their curriculum relevant to what people should know these days. It'd be nice to also see classes on taxes and our political process, but that'd probably be asking too much. Honestly if kids came out of school without any concept of coding I'd say they were deprived. Our lives revolve around programmable technology.
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Yeah, because we all know that little girl will use coding in her life when she walks out of her prom with a positive pregnancy test. [spoiler]just a joke no h8[/spoiler]
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They are not smart for taking coding lessons, it in their curriculum they have to do it. :)
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The education system is broken. I could learn how to measure a triangle without learning how to make informed consumer purchases and other important things
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Teaching coding does not equal intelligence.
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2 RespuestasEver asked a high schooler to factor a trinomial? I did once, I wasn't impressed.
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3 RespuestasEditado por hooglespoodle: 10/14/2016 4:57:27 PMIt's definitely good. At the school I go to, it's military based and teachers are good. Most kids don't know the difference between multiplication and division and have trouble spelling without their phone autocorrecting everything. Keep in mind this is 7th grade
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6 RespuestasI bet they use spaces.
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18 RespuestasCanada still has a better education system.
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1 RespuestaNo, they're really not.
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Come to Maryland in Baltimore.
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Nah, Kids aren't smart. We're just stupid. And that wasn't coding you thought you saw.🤓
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That's actually not a bad idea to teach kids coding. I went to a special needs school for a few year an instead of just handing us a diploma and saying "good luck sport." They actually had a class that was basically "shit you should know before your 18.". Granted they called it "independent living skills" but still.
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Idk a couple days ago in my history half the kids didn't know if trump or hillary were republicans or democrats
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16 RespuestasNo, the American education system is still shit. We're middle of the road in science. If we want to "make America great again," we have to be the best in a world that is very quickly evolving to being centralized around intellectual ability rather than labor. In my mind, the upcoming generation should be required to understand real analysis to graduate.
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2 RespuestasPublic education is daycare. On a side note, has anyone considered the ramifications of allowing our federal government to shape the education of it's citizens? I took AP Govt in high school. It did a good job explaining the mechanical functions of government while entirely ignoring the political theory behind our institutions. Is it possible that our government actually wants the majority of Americans to be ignorant?
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Because the internet teaches us grammar
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Their high school diploma will still be handed to them whether they fail or not
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7 RespuestasAre they teaching cursive and grammar again? One of the reasons why I was pulled out and homeschooled
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2 RespuestasI'm currently in freshman year taking an intro to mobile app development class. We're making a lot of good stuff , for example, one of the guys that sits next to one of my friends and I made an animated representation of 9/11. Meanwhile I labeled the plane I coded in as Malaysian Airlines flight 370. But 4th graders learning the same stuff 5 grades below me? Admittedly, I couldn't believe it at first. The lowest grade that gets to be in our class is 8th graders. This makes me think I should've been in this class last year. When my peers and I were in 8th grade, I'd like to believe we weren't half-bad. This new batch of 8th graders, though, holy hell are they outrageous. If they're not irresponsible, they're entitled. That, or they're both. What I mean by irresponsible is that instead of doing the work we were assigned, such as making a magic 8-ball or to-do list app for Android, they're instead wasting time watching some Minecraft video or something (Why can't that game die already?). I just wish they could be like this one guy who sits next to me. He's either a junior or a senior. He does look up a video in class every now and then, but only if he has his work done, and usually his are actually funny like a Family Feud funny moments compilation or something.
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1 RespuestaI think it's a very good initiative. Things that require code are becoming more and more popular in this century, and I can know it. I'm a game developer, that's why. And I also notice that there are more and more people who started coding. It used to be pretty special if you knew how to code back in the day, but it gets less rare, as I mentioned before.
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No, they're all still stupid and the education system is still built around teaching kids that individuality isn't okay and that being able to regurgitate information at a moments notice is what gets you through life. Our school system is a 150 year old institution, made to teach kids how to be disciplined in a factory, so they could make money for their families, themselves and the companies they work for, so the capitalist machine can keep running. Times change, but I guess schools don't. Either that, or the people who go through them and hate them, don't care enough to make the change, so that we can start working towards an education system that deals with the issues of today's society.
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When i was in secondary school, My tech and design room had a completely polished bench. Not only that, but my second year into to secondary school my class council rep was the dumbest and rudest jackass in the school, he wouldn't let his granny finish her sentence.
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Shit I'm in Canada and in grade 10 and we don't have a computer class at my school, let alone coding.
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14 RespuestasYet somehow teenagers are getting dumber.
