Adafruit Launches Educational Show Aimed At Kids

anavictoriasaavedra writes "Adafruit Industries just posted the first episode in a new educational series aimed at teaching kids about electronics. The episode is entitled 'A is for Ampere' and teaches the basic theory behind electrical current. The subject seems like a common one for A-to-Z themed electrical tutorials. And yes, that's Collin Cunnigham as André-Marie Ampère."

Comments

"Literally"

[girlintraining]

So what you're saying is... you're making a literal for the children argument. You're actually making something... for kids. Damn. This hasn't happened in months in this country. You go girl. The last "for the children" I heard involved guns. I'd rather have kids learning how to make drones, death robots, and sentient AI, because at least that shit takes talent! :)

Re: "Literally"

[Anonymous Coward]

'A' is for Aim or Automatic or Amunition or Assault Rifle.

Re:Let the ego-stroking commence

[Joce640k]

oh look, a woman is re-packaging common components and 1960's-style "About" electronics books. Yay. Oh, and did we mention she's a woman?

She can't help being a woman any more than you can help being an idiot.

circuit breaker "only for adults"?

[pikine]

I wish she hadn't said that only grown ups are allowed to touch the circuit breaker box. For most part the circuit breakers are designed to be remarkably safe. Only don't use a hammer to pound on them or try to insert blades or paper clips into the gap lines. Maybe a word of caution is that if the circuit breaker has dangling wires, or if it shows signs of poor construction or tampering, then even grown ups probably shouldn't mess with it. All of that could take just a few more seconds to explain.

I am of the opinion that if you keep teaching children like they were children, they would never grow up. You have to teach them like adults. Of course some people would disagree and say that in order to communicate effectively, you must target an age group. I would say take the element that makes communicating to that age group effective, and use it to improve communication to other age groups also. In the end, the most effective communication methods to all age groups converge into one, and target audience age group becomes a non-issue.

Re:circuit breaker "only for adults"?

[NeverVotedBush]

I wish she hadn't said that only grown ups are allowed to touch the circuit breaker box. For most part the circuit breakers are designed to be remarkably safe.

The breakers themselves are remarkably safe (but see below) but what they control might not be. Want your young kids to be comfortable switching them on and off while you are working on the garbage disposal?

Or maybe people wouldn't mind their kids switching things off while your NAS is busy writing a file?

And then there is the actual possibility that a breaker carrying a big enough load could fail while being switched and there be an arc-flash that breaches the shell of the breaker?

In recent years there have been a number of reports of counterfeit circuit breakers out of China that made it into the distribution chain - for those that think it is impossible for a breaker to fail catastrophically while being switched under load...

It's best that children not switch breakers on and off. Ada was right. You are wrong.

Very up to date

[Anonymous Coward]

Celebrity names may come and go, but Ampere's name will always be current.

Not accurate!

[Paleolibertarian]

Amperes don't make electrons go. Voltage does that. Amperes is simply a measurement of the quantity of electrons flowing. I.E. 6.28 x 10^18 electrons past a certain point in one second = 1 Amp.

She should have shown the PIE chart.