Lefteris Karapetsas
@lefteris.eth
I get the feeling that computer literacy is decreasing. We are getting a lot more "screen" users, the majority of whom are doomscrolling or swipe left/swipe right zombies. People that need everything dumbed down for them and just consume, consume, consume. This is dangerous for our society as a whole. A world where you grow up surrounded by digital devices but are only mindlessly fed content through them is a dystopia. We need more tinkerers. We need more curiosity. We need more hackers.
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
Digital literacy is a hard thing to teach because the space moves so fast and there’s often a vocational aspect to it. My hot take is that we’re teaching “computer science” wrong in school. Little kids are learning Scratch (which is great), but then “progress” to building websites in HTML and JavaScript. That’s consumer level programming. We need high school curriculums to start at CS bedrock in theory and practice: FSAs and CFGs, tape machines, then simplified assembly, then some C or BASIC. Really impress into those squishy brains how computers and software work fundamentally. Them let them explore higher level abstractions later.
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