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Re:What I Learned from Two Years of Teaching High School CS by arethuza on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:03AM (#36355873)
How do you know if you will like something without trying?
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Re:What I Learned from Two Years of Teaching High School CS by the_af on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:07AM (#36355930)
I think trying to present the topic in an interesting and engaging way is worthwhile.

But thinking you can get 100% students interested in it is probably unrealistic. I don't think you can get all the students interested in any given topic, so why think of this as a failure? Getting a decent number of students interested is good enough. Getting all of them? Unrealistic.

I don't even think this is a failure of the students. Coding isn't universally interesting. It's ok to find it boring, through no fault of either the teacher or the students.

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Re:What I Learned from Two Years of Teaching High School CS by csmeyer on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:16AM (#36356063)
Maybe I wasn't clear in the article. 100% is a nominal goal (give everyone a chance!) but obviously not everyone will like it and that's not a problem.
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