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Re:CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer by lloydde on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:09PM (#17668505)
“Computer Teacher With No Computers Chalks Up Clever Classroom Plan” is still blowing my mind months later. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/01/5895194...

> For Hottish, who spends about 30 minutes making these drawings before every class, teaching this way is really no big deal. "Every subject is taught on the blackboard here," he says.

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Re:CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer by AstralStorm on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:42PM (#17674235)
Reminds me of a certain academic teacher who taught CAD/Cam skills including layout of AutoCAD UI on the blackboard, drawing pristine lines with a string and spline.

It was awesome to watch him work, he was much faster on chalkboard than we were on paper with better tools and could draw spirals and screws in seconds.

Unlike computers, his equipment never chugged or crashed.

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Re:CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer by drb91 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:23PM (#17668570)
Wow, I was envisioning discrete math, but he is teaching modern computer skills. I would find this incredibly intimidating. Well, I guess necessity is the mother of invention—he clearly figured out how to get some decent teaching out of it.

Great penmanship, too. Surreal for this field.

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