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Is It Time For Hacker Scouts?

Posted by Soulskill on from the earn-a-lightsaber-badge dept.

ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine asks: is it 'Time For Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts 2.0?' What might the future of education be like if it were based on online & earned skill badges, and what could the future of traditional organizations for kids, like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, be like in a very modern, tech-savvy world? Social networks and the maker movement are the perfect intersection of where the kids of today are, but we don't see 'leaderboards' for skills yet; we only see them for video games. Is it time for Hacker Scouts?"

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  1. Badges by fph+il+quozientatore · · Score: 4, Funny

    You got the First Post badge!

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    My first program:

    Hell Segmentation fault

    1. Re:Badges by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

      Badges? We don't got no badges! We don't need no steenkin' badges!

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      General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
    2. Re:Badges by Ken_g6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Badges? We don't got no badges! We don't need no steenkin' badges!

      Of course not. We just need achievements.

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      (T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
    3. Re:Badges by ArundelCastle · · Score: 2, Funny

      /=\ Help an Old Lady Across the Information Superhighway /=\

      "No Gramma don't click the red button... No don't click Confirm, that warning is lying to you."
      "No mom it's in the menu bar. The menu. At the top. Of the screen... Just let me remote in..."
      "Left-click. With the mouse. What? How big is the button? No, use the button on the top of the mouse, not the side."

      I would've earned every damn one of those badges. >_

    4. Re:Badges by citizenr · · Score: 3, Funny

      "No Gramma don't click the red button... No don't click Confirm, that warning is lying to you."
      "No mom it's in the menu bar. The menu. At the top. Of the screen... Just let me remote in..."
      "Left-click. With the mouse. What? How big is the button? No, use the button on the top of the mouse, not the side."

      I used to do that, now that I am over 30 I just tell people they are too stupid to use computers.

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      Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
  2. A Hacker is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    untrustworthy, disloyal, surly,
    angry, rude, mean,
    obstinant, cranky, greedy,
    anonymous, smelly, irreverent