Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by ffpip on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:57PM
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Indian Startup WhiteHat JR is the biggest edtech scam. They are fooling parents with promises of jobs at Google, their kid's app in the play store/app store.
Their teachers do not know basic things like what is a cloud server (they said these run on actual clouds), difference between Java and Javascript.
Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by dang on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:50PM
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It would be better to include these links in a comment in that thread, where they would clearly be on topic.
The problem with making a separate submission out of it is that it's repetitive; we don't need two different threads about the same issue with the same startup at the same time.
Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by userbinator on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:53PM
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I don't think this phenomenon is specific to India, but a culture of strongly encouraging rote memorisation over actual thinking is definitely a factor. I worked in CS education many years ago (not in India) but the decline was already quite visible then, in the form of students who could recite obscure facts and copy-paste code together but were otherwise mostly computer-illiterate. These people then think they are successful and try to teach others, leading to a case of "the blind leading the blind".
Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by manishsharan on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:51PM
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It's not just an Indian startup ... It's a fully owned subsidiary of a major Disney business partner. It's such a shame that Mickey mouse is now being used to scam gullible and desperate parents in the third world. Such a shame!
Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by GregNGM on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:52PM
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Particularly concerning is the section where the teacher is instructed to unconditionally reward the student, and then say that this reward is "exceptional" to the parents. I'm not a lawyer, but that sound like fraud. https://archive.org/details/demo-class_202011/page/25/mode/1...
Re:Script used by Indian startup WhiteHatJr to teach coding ...
by ajsutrave on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:00PM
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I disagree. I think this is the sort of thing we do to encourage kids to do something difficult. If you interpret the comment more charitably it could be trying to say that all students are exceptional in the sense that every human is unique.
Their teachers do not know basic things like what is a cloud server (they said these run on actual clouds), difference between Java and Javascript.
Related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25176230
The problem with making a separate submission out of it is that it's repetitive; we don't need two different threads about the same issue with the same startup at the same time.
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You may find this amusing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse#Adjective
Lol. Wat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYJU%27S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_Bajaj