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protimewastertoday at 9:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's limited to "younger students", and keeping younger students away from computers also isn't a bad idea IMO.


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hgoeltoday at 10:16 PM

Keeping younger students away from computers is dumb, but we do need to go back to the basic computer literacy classes of the early/mid 2000s, e.g. typing, basics of desktop operating systems like the filesystem, using word, powerpoint etc. It's appalling how lacking high schoolers seem to be in these kinds of skills.

anonymarstoday at 10:31 PM

I think young exposure to real computers (where you create, and have to figure things out; not consumption machines) provides access to a level of fluency that is otherwise difficult or impossible to achieve, just like many other skills (language, music...)

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