Re:Repl.it Teams for Education
by daltonlp on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:01PM
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Your tl/dr is spot-on. The critical resource is teachers' and students' time.
Keep in mind, we're talking about teaching students in a class, with a curriculum.
This is not high-value open ended learning with real tools. This is basic skill training exercises.
I speak from the experience of watching a teacher struggle with multiple students' python dependencies for the first two weeks of class. This was with a set of (supposedly) homogenous school-issued laptops. After switching to repl.it, all that hassle just disappeared.
Keep in mind, we're talking about teaching students in a class, with a curriculum.
This is not high-value open ended learning with real tools. This is basic skill training exercises.
I speak from the experience of watching a teacher struggle with multiple students' python dependencies for the first two weeks of class. This was with a set of (supposedly) homogenous school-issued laptops. After switching to repl.it, all that hassle just disappeared.