2nd year of High School and they are teaching them block coding, he did this when he was 6 years old 🤦♀️
No challenges at all and unfortunately it’s just an older teacher biding his time before retirement and just ticking off the list of what to teach.
Mind you, this is at one of the most exclusive private schools around so I can only imagine that nothing is happening in the public system here! 😠
If he wants to go in to tech there’s little value in him being at school - nothing he’s gonna learn there will be of much use. Even the Unis in Aus are useless, I’ve been involved with mentoring students at that level and they’re being taught garbage which is totally disconnected from what is needed in the real world so they come out with these huge debts and can’t even perform basic jobs. They’re just there to be indoctrinated.
If he needs structured learning look into things like Saylor Academy https://learn.saylor.org
And Saifedean’s economics courses https://saifedean.com/courses
Even the courses from A Cloud Guru would be worth a look, at least they’re practical https://acloudguru.com
This might seem a bit advanced for 13 but I’m sure you could find a pathway to get him to this stuff (if he’s not there already) and at least it will be challenging, interesting, and give him REAL skills.
I sure wish I’d learned Austrian Economics in my teens. That’s one thing that would have really benefited me greatly but is nowhere to be found in standard curricula.
Nice. It's all about finding the right info online...since there is too much info, memory overload and tech stuff gets outdated quick.
Curated works, hero coming thru StackSats.io
Thank you 🙏 will certainly get him on here!
Unfortunately not much is available to the teens and they are the future of AI and coding!
I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread by chance 😆 I'll pass this on to my almost 16 yo to see if any of this resonates for him 😍
Thanks so much for sharing 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Wanna hear a joke? Soon AI will guide them through their journeys 😅
Have you tried https://bard.google.com/ yet? And ChatGPT. Has its flaws but maybe a good learning companion I dunno
Yeah there is a super cool youtube on how to use AI for learning. I got a heap of ideas trying it.
Also, I tried Bard, it's good for some things but subpar for others (it felt like a lazy ai haha) 😆
Neat people figuring stuff out. You're a good mom then pushing the tech into his veins for survival purposes🤙
Yeah, my 6yo is even more fortunate. He's been coding with scratch and enjoys it. He's way too smart. And he'll never visit institutional schools. I'm raising rebel geniuses 😆 🤣
