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With Wuhan Coronavirus spreading in New York City, parents, Parent Teacher Associations, and schools seem to be inevitably headed for extended shutdowns and quarantines. The Department of Education is crossing its fingers, wiping down all surfaces, and hoping to avert the worst without closing schools, but parents are going to need contingency plans.
Do Soylentils have recommendations for online resources that members of NYC's school boards can share with the parent community to help kids keep up with their school work? Khan Academy is an excellent resource for math & science; it doesn't span every subject but something like it that grade school kids can understand would be ideal.
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Sauron is alive in Argentina!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @11:55AM (13 children)
Teach them history. Just history.
If things get really interesting, there's going to be a lot of debate about the direction of society, policy, economy and the world. History is the single best teacher of human political behaviour.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @02:01PM (5 children)
History and small unit tactics.
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @02:43PM (4 children)
And Perl. Either because it's the absolute best tool for making text your bitch or because you hate them. Both would be valid reasons.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Friday March 13 2020, @03:05PM
Teaching them Perl, and revisiting tasks after a few weeks will also teach them fundamentals of history.
i.e. - your sources are usually not saying what you think they are on first reading.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday March 13 2020, @06:14PM (2 children)
Indeed, TIMTOWTFIU (There Is More Than One Way To F*** It Up)
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 13 2020, @07:17PM (1 child)
Are there some sites on multiple ways to mis-implement basic software functionality? Something that works for a basic test, but fails maintainability, readability, extendability, security, doesn't performance-scale ... ?
Those examples would be great to learn from, plus you'd just have to read all of 20 additional pieces of crappy code in your lifetime, but you could do it much earlier in your career.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @10:37PM
Yup. The most well known one is here [microsoft.com].
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 13 2020, @02:49PM (5 children)
Unironically. Processing and online gamification can teach coding for the very young, and Coursera offers some decent free tutorial stuff. If your kid can stand it then you can approach it as being a puzzle game. Or perhaps you could play actual puzzle games or tabletops like chess or Risk if you have those laying around. Something fun and educational.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 13 2020, @03:37PM (3 children)
I've got a chess board, kind of hard to find someone to play with, but it's fun in a casual setting. Best Chess game ever: Battle Chess. Even as a kid I could win, but it was always interesting to see the pieces fight it out.
Definition of Not Fun: Playing a computer Chess opponent that knows it all. That's what I call computer cheating. Like pitting human opponents against AIs, it's stupid. Sure, I can program a game to run, where the computer always wins too.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Friday March 13 2020, @03:52PM (1 child)
"Battle Chess. Even as a kid I could win"
Hah. I could beat my little kasparov chess computer at 4 reliably, 5 sometimes, out of 8 difficulty levels. I couldn't win BattleChess to save my life. I'd always sabotage my game with bad moves just to watch the fights.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday March 13 2020, @03:57PM
I hear that, it was quite entertaining. It runs well on DOSBox, FYI.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by krishnoid on Friday March 13 2020, @07:22PM
Battle Chess also provides a nice corollary of Parkinson's law of triviality [stackexchange.com] or "bikeshedding" for programmers/content creators.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @08:44AM
And, we end up with more paragons of a liberal arts education like Ethanol_fueled? I, for one, pass. Educators generally do not take advice from their failures.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday March 13 2020, @11:27PM
And make sure they remember it for the rest of their lives. Yes, I know, the US way is to protect children from moral trauma and such shit - don't do it. Show them how bad it really is. They can handle it and they don't get sick while they spread the disease. They should carry the blame for the rest of their lives. Why? So they will do something about it when they rule the world.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.