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   Irina (irina@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 19:59:23 JST Irina

   • myrmepropagandist
   • Kathe Todd-Brown

   @JubalBarca @ktoddbrown @futurebird When my kids had "digital lessons" in the late two thousand and zeros, it was more "windows for dummies" than anything else. What buttons to press rather than how things actually worked. (Grrr.)

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     Irina (irina@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 19:59:38 JST Irina

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     • myrmepropagandist
     • Kathe Todd-Brown

     @JubalBarca @ktoddbrown @futurebird The rationale was "you'll need that in your job later" but now it's later and practically none of what they learned is still relevant, whereas the basics (which they didn't learn) of course still are.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 19:59:47 JST myrmepropagandist

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     • Kathe Todd-Brown

     @irina @JubalBarca @ktoddbrown

     Treating education as job training really raises my hackles. Why educate the public? If the answer is "So they are smart enough to fetch my paper and serve my tea." I'm gonna have a big problem with that. If the answer is "because I make money by having other people build complex things so I need more people to do that." I'm still going to have a big problem with that.

     And parents should be alarmed by such notions. Too often though some are excited by this.

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