Re:California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
by Aperocky on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:04PM
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Raspberry Pi are created for this exact purpose, and to think the school isn't giving everyone one to educate on basic computer science is beyond me. If you eventually learn trigonometry in math within the public education framework, I see no reason why people shouldn't be educated in more basic and practical things like computers.
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Re:California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
by C1sc0cat on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:43AM
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Not created for 3rd grades though - they where really for the 6th form (last two years of school) to actually get some experience of computers at a lower level before going to UNI.
Re:California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
by flukus on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:26AM
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> I see no reason why people shouldn't be educated in more basic and practical things like computers
Because the teachers and education department are useless. My nephews had to get an iPad for their programming class, an expensive device (and all the problems with that) that is less capable and far less practical to learn programming on.
Imagine how much better school could be if kids had raspberry pis and and use free tools like gnuplot in their maths and physics classes.