Public school teachers should be concerned with developing and fostering anti-capitalist computing education, but 90% of university CS educators are ideologically opposed to this work.
Wrote a little guide for how I got simple networking to happen on Pico-Pond, my #pico8 demake of Frog Chorus.
Guide + full commented source code for the project here: https://github.com/andymasteroffish/pico_pond_front
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One of the worst things that could happen to the fediverse is for it to be seen as a place to join to have an audience. That it isnt is its key differential advantage as a social media platform, as far as I'm concerned.
Once people start leaving Twitter or Facebook because they think they can have "reach" here, it's all over.
Of course, this is fundamentally at odds with anyone trying to make the fediverse "successful," because that's essentially the primary metric of success that they use.
i spent the bulk of the last year getting a worker-owned technology cooperative off the ground! all my paid professional work is now done through the EMMA Technology Cooperative
EMMA is me, @andymakes Ivan Safrin and Gwen Pasquarello. it's an experiment in non-hierarchical consensus-based labor organization, and it has been an absolute thrill to work in a way that aligns with my principles for the first time!
Laser cut panels for a new all-in-one norns, grid, knob controller device I've been scheming up for the last few days arrived. I love making new contexts for old devices of mine, feels like new equipment even when it's not #theWorkshop
Bonus points if there's a specific concept the game would be particularly suited to teach
Extra bonus points if the game is weird :)
Again--lots of folks are posing answers to this question in a really compelling way. I hope folks' work toward equity-centered CSEd, critical computing education, and many other lines of inquiry start finding themselves at the center of K-12 CSEd.
I'm really interested in seeing how the field begins to answer a really important question: "why should we teach CS to kids if most of them won't actually *work* in CS?" And because CS is so entangled with capital, I think the debate will be pretty contentious.
CSEd hasn't had that philosophical debate yet, at least not at the same level of rigor as other fields like MuEd. People are starting--critical computing in K-12 is part of that process. But most of the field still orients itself around HE paradigms.
This same question doesn't really apply to HE contexts--why teach music in HE? Because people want to study it so they can do music as a career (at least some of them do). We could have a whole convo about whether or not we are *good* at doing that rn, but that's not the point.
They/he. CS educator, curriculum writer, and recovering music teacher. Music, making, coding, TRPGs, modular synths. Roots for the Baltimore Crabs. 2 degrees in music education from James Madison University. Writer with Gourmelee Games.