Post ALMARzMz98a1Ontc7U by km6ecc@mastodon.radio
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(DIR) Post #ALMARzMz98a1Ontc7U by km6ecc@mastodon.radio
2022-07-10T18:03:28Z
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Hey fellow educators. I am old enough to remember the fuel the home PC revolution added to "computer literacy." I was first on the internet in 1992, and in short order (yet always a little late) "information literacy" became a university GE topic, program or even requirement. What we need to get to work on RIGHT NOW is artificial intelligence literacy.
(DIR) Post #ALMARzv16bnn6LonAG by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T18:17:33Z
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@km6ecc I don't agree. The more we formalize, the less we get the best.
(DIR) Post #ALMBAKCP44WUk35Tma by dew_the_dew@poa.st
2022-07-10T18:25:39.462876Z
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@amerika @km6ecc lol yeah, "computer literacy" in the 90s.Hey kids this is a mouse! This is how you click! This is how you double click! This is how you drag and drop! This is how you open MS Paint! This is how you change the font size in Word!Meanwhile the smarter kids are ranging from trying to get to the command prompt to just format the HDD for fun to trying to get access to the grade database.
(DIR) Post #ALMBvauKlCcOAmAw2i by benis@cawfee.club
2022-07-10T18:34:11.503831Z
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@km6ecc no, not really.
(DIR) Post #ALMCXyBGgCixMDOYE4 by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T18:41:07Z
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@dew_the_dew @km6ecc I was lucky and had some good classes, mostly because of living in the shadow of a few major universities.But for the average person, Computer Literacy was typing class and how to use MS Word to write a letter to grandma.
(DIR) Post #ALMCb6l7F6fcpZev2G by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T18:41:42Z
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@dew_the_dew @km6ecc In the early 90s, your computer literacy was still done on terminals.This is The Right Way according to me.
(DIR) Post #ALMDgdla35ssbV4uYq by PhenomX6@fedi.pawlicker.com
2022-07-10T18:53:54.200515Z
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@dew_the_dew@km6ecc @amerika programming classes: here's what python does and here's this package that lets you do it.
(DIR) Post #ALMDuDTyZK6V8jJk1I by dew_the_dew@poa.st
2022-07-10T18:56:22.092626Z
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@PhenomX6 @km6ecc @amerika here's github, make an account so you can post your code that is calling a few functions from somebody else's code but now it has your name on it.
(DIR) Post #ALMDxuonu3pePdp6mG by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T18:57:01Z
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@PhenomX6 @km6ecc @dew_the_dew And people wonder why the average "Hello World" program compiles to 300mb these days.
(DIR) Post #ALME0o9v7S58cy502i by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T18:57:32Z
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@dew_the_dew @PhenomX6 @km6ecc "Put this on your resume, then cut and paste code from Google and Stackoverflow until you get promoted to Senior Developer."
(DIR) Post #ALMEAZCJbGTh7aqxGq by dew_the_dew@poa.st
2022-07-10T18:59:19.412216Z
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@amerika @PhenomX6 @km6ecc "I think we need a pregnant man emoji, make sure it comes in every skin tone."
(DIR) Post #ALMEVF6HW5OSs7tEqu by dew_the_dew@poa.st
2022-07-10T19:03:03.614662Z
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@km6ecc got it, here's your syllabus
(DIR) Post #ALMF13Gl2VV9RfxRxo by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T19:08:48Z
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@dew_the_dew @PhenomX6 @km6ecc "Oh, and Dave? You'd get promoted a lot faster if you suddenly became a Davina, if you know what I mean."
(DIR) Post #ALMFg2bAREe3Eo383U by dew_the_dew@poa.st
2022-07-10T19:16:12.987144Z
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@km6ecc TEACHER PLEASE GRADE MY AI ASSIGNMENT
(DIR) Post #ALMKWjyqn1vwexVmlc by sunbearshaman@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T20:10:33Z
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@km6ecc How can we get anywhere near AI literacy when most people say "I hate math"? It's like, the most common shared sentiment outside of hating dentists and taxes. AI literacy requires knowing real math, hard math, multidimensional shit. We have such a long way to go. Let's teach everyone about compound interest first.
(DIR) Post #ALMR7owftPRaUuYg8u by ryo@social.076.ne.jp
2022-07-10T21:24:27.731565Z
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@PhenomX6 @km6ecc @amerika @dew_the_dew Programming classes in current year: "this is how you program like an ace: download this framework from NPM, download additional dependencies also from NPM, mix and match this shit together, and that's how you code".Soydevving needs to die...
(DIR) Post #ALMTwuxPV4TfouOYTp by wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo
2022-07-10T21:56:05.754150Z
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@PhenomX6 @km6ecc @amerika @dew_the_dew Which is tolerable maybe just as an introductory, but the problem is when they never graduate beyond those hand holders. This is why I think the real starting point should be to throw people into a terminal text editor and a compiler.
(DIR) Post #ALMUASF93SBOos946a by amerika@noagendasocial.com
2022-07-10T21:58:34Z
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@wrongthink @PhenomX6 @km6ecc @dew_the_dew Yes. Give them an account on some nice Lunix machine, let them start compiling C code and doing system administration tasks in the shell.
(DIR) Post #ALMaI1D23AOD159AVk by km6ecc@mastodon.radio
2022-07-10T23:07:08Z
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@amerika @wrongthink @PhenomX6 Linux shell is exactly where we start, installing (RPi of course.) The goal is to get them moving pixels around on tile displays. Python MPI and other libraries, often Pygame. So they pick up a lot of basic networking too. A+ students get there by building small cluster. Then we have an exhibition. Two sequence course.
(DIR) Post #ALMzrJbw7fJv4siu7k by janagyjr@podcastindex.social
2022-07-10T18:19:22Z
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@km6ecc I disagree. The hard push toward machine intelligence is dangerous and is being pursued without wisdom.
(DIR) Post #ALNWdVTCWyx2I7f18a by ryo@social.076.ne.jp
2022-07-11T10:00:55.659202Z
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@flaky @amerika @dew_the_dew @PhenomX6 @km6ecc When making desktop apps, I usually use C89 and GTK+ 2.0.Though I'm trying to understand how to work with ncurses.
(DIR) Post #ALNjd1RZT0JGZQzuHg by nk@social.076.ne.jp
2022-07-11T12:25:50.906379Z
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@ryo @flaky @PhenomX6 @amerika @dew_the_dew @km6ecc One of the main reasons why they decided to write neovim o_O