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Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @11:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-teaching dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @02:43PM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 13 2020, @02:43PM (#970713) Homepage Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Friday March 13 2020, @03:05PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 13 2020, @03:05PM (#970721)

    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)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday March 13 2020, @06:14PM (#970803) Journal

    Indeed, TIMTOWTFIU (There Is More Than One Way To F*** It Up)

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    • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 13 2020, @07:17PM (1 child)

      by krishnoid (1156) on Friday March 13 2020, @07:17PM (#970835)

      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.