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K-12 CS Framework Calls For Teaching Kids Responsible Use of Avatars and Emoji
theodp writes: If you're wondering what corporate-backed Computer Science for All might look like, check out the new Framework for K-12 CS Education draft, the handiwork of educators, Microsoft, Google, Apple and others, which "identifies the powerful ideas in computer science as core concepts and practices for all K-12 students." Among these is the still-to-be-completed Practice 5 — Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture — which says that by grade 12, students should be able to: "Identify issues of diversity in depictions of people within computing artifacts. For example, a set of emoji depicts only males playing sports or the avatars in a game present only Caucasian people." In other K-12 CS news, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics suggests CS for All may not be all it's cracked up to be.
Don't use the poo emoji?
Don't use the dead face and gun emoji next to each other?
sigh...
Social Justice Warriors, activate! We won't teach anyone computing or logic - be we will indoctrinate them to apply every possible micro-inequity and micro-aggression.
Hey, dumbass SJWs!
Focusing on race ALL THE FUCKING TIME makes YOU the racist.
Is the proper use of an emoji is now something we want taught in schools? This is ridiculous. Teach Johnny and Lisa to read instead of worrying about a fucking smiley..
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
How dare you suggest that the corporate-and-politically-correct SJW slant is somehow not germane to CS. SJW is always germane, relevant, and appropriate! And PC even moreso! PC, both Politically Correct and Personal Computing. Righteous match made in heaven!
But teaching grammar, punctuation, spelling and actual English is right out! Go figure.
. . . I don't see a whole lot of white role models. When I look at hospital staff, I don't see a lot of male nurses. Where's the outrage there? Oh right, I'm a straight white male . . . the entirety of the world's problems are my fault. Fuck me.
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Wow.
Come on. Seriously. You might as well say an astrology course counts as astronomy. They're both about stars, after all. Plus, knowing your boss is an Aries has practical application.
Do they teach this portion before or after something like an actual programming language?
Actual computer scientists have nothing to fear from this CS for everybody bullshit, CS is still hard and at some point the rubber hits the road. All these mediocre "diversity sweep" kids won't stand a chance against their peers who actually learn CS. Companies will realize one way or another that it's better to hire someone who can develop an efficient and elegant solution over the guy who can draw diverse emoticons
Watch GGTards' heads explode in 3... 2... 1...
I tested Unreal Tournament 2004 multiplayer at Atari. I've noticed that all the testers were using male characters, including the female testers. I used the Asian female character as my avatar, picked up the sniper rifle and started camping. My coworkers eventually got tired of the multiple headshots, flushed me out and chased me through the level. Since I was the only female character in the game, everyone knew it was me. They weren't happy that I could snipe — HEADSHOT! — and run at the same time.
The grammarians never learn. Any use of emoji / avatars is the correct one. The best you can do is teach them what they're for.
Now there has long been a challenge of Computer *Science* not focusing particularly on the science of computing much, but this is really a whole new low....
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I get why this upsets some people, but they need to be told to get a grip for their own good. You know what kind of woman in CS I respect? The kind of woman who is more interesting in talking about CS issues than talking about women in CS. That rare moment when she actually talks about "women in CS stuff" is more likely to be interesting and relevant to me if she has otherwise proved a greater interest in the subject than in demographics. If you spend more time talking about your group in CS than actually talking about CS, then you aren't really interested in CS. Your actions reveal your real interest which is social activism, not the subject.
"Inclusive avatars" itself makes sense if the software's purpose supports it. Mass Effect Andromeda has no reason to avoid having a black female option for the new Shepherd. Witcher 3, a game based on Slavic mythology does. You aren't going to find a lot of diversity in that universe except on the distant periphery. Seeing a black person in such a game without a damn good reason for their inclusion would harm suspension of disbelief. It would be like having Asian characters suddenly appear in a "Call of Duty: Africa Campaigns" that otherwise lets you fight as British soldiers or native black warriors resisting colonialism. You'd better have a good reason for presenting that option otherwise you're just screaming "hey, look at my virtue signaling" while people are trying to immerse themselves in an entertainment experience.
For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world. Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!
Makes sense that they would like even more to impose a Code of Conduct on life, starting when you're a kid.
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Emoji instruction, Retard Trump, SJW, police state, no privacy whatsoever, IP hellhole...
So lucky to not live in the land of the sheep and the exploited...
Does CS stand for Computer Sociology now?
There's no better reason to vote for Donald Trump than to make SJWs heads fucking EXPLODE!!
Not just "SJWs". Someone scrawled "Trump 2016" in chalk in many places on the Emory University campus. Trivial vandalism, right? The student reaction?
That afternoon, a group of 40 to 50 students protested. According to the student newspaper, the Emory Wheel, they shouted in the quad, "You are not listening! Come speak to us, we are in pain!"...
Jim Wagner, the president of the university in Atlanta, met with the protesters and later sent an email to the campus community, explaining, in part, "During our conversation, they voiced their genuine concern and pain in the face of this perceived intimidation."
What are we becoming as a nation? This notion that "emoticon diversity is a core part of CS" is not some oddball exception. We've really lost the thread here.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
...the rest of the world teaches kids relevant skills and look down at the US for its school system becoming more and more irrelevant.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
One of the core tasks of a K-12 education is teaching kids how to communicate effectively --- through the spoken word, written word, gestures and so on. That is why some schools do care about things like art, music, dance and theater.
Emoji may seem alien to the geek, but if he truly believes the world is flat, he has little cause for complaint when outside influences begin creeping in and see adoption by the masses. ASCII art and the emoticon was his thing, the emoji belong to everyone else.
Which means that issues of race, sex, politics, culture and religion can no longer be swept under the rug.
The etiquette of using the telephone was taught by grade schools for generations. The telephone gave you the immediacy of verbal communication without the visual clues that you were headed in the wrong direction.
yeah, i saw that emory university thing too, and i wasn't sure how to feel. here's the article i read.
they could have used their own chalk to cross it out. they could have added an endorsement for another candidate. they could have gotten a wet rag and wiped it off. my demographic is often marginalized. i understand completely what it's like to walk down the street knowing that a preponderance of strangers i'll pass are trump supporters who probably believe that my demographic is part of the reason america is going down the tubes.
the fact that they intend to use video surveillance to find the person who put "trump 2016" there and either discipline him according to some campus policy or prosecute him for trespassing depending on whether he's a student or not is horrifying to me. it's fucking sidewalk chalk! wtf is happening here?
i've said i was going to abstain from the general election, but now i'm not sure. those students and the reaction by the university may have motivated me to go out to the ballot box in november and cast a vote for trump.
what this means to me is that we've moved past the internet sjw phenomenon of trying to bully and censor dissenting views. this is the first sign that free speech is actually being dismantled.
if i can add one more thing, the other shocking bit to this whole mess to me is that this marginalized demographic has been voting en masse for a woman that really doesn't give a shit about the issues affecting them, and the candidate who was actually there in the civil rights movement is just an old white guy from vermont.
when the whole world is racist and it's just a question of who's in the majority, maybe it's time that i stop worrying about the issues that affect a demographic that is equally racist and also stupid enough to vote against its own best interest. let me put it this way. i'm not going to call somebody a traitor to their own demographic because they don't support the candidate i think is their best option if civil rights issues are important to them. however, if i'm supporting a candidate that is not in my demographic's best interest, i'd sure as hell want somebody to help me to understand where i may have gone astray!
instead we get censorship. actual. fucking. censorship.
Read the unscientific "study" on Second Life. Seriously-- read it. It has nothing to do with how Second Life is programmed. They set up a biased scenario by presenting a fake article to the subjects and were surprised when the results were biased. Then they cite one anecdote from a player who said he was the token black in the game. No one suggests that Second Life doesn't have diverse avatars, or that people are penalized for being non-white. Garbage.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Another reason to homeschool..my kids are learning about the Bitcoin blockchain and why taxation is theft while kids in government schools are learning about emojis. Bwahahaha.
With the new species-selectable emojies in WhatsApp I can now show a white cop shooting a nigger and a white smiley after the deed. Just what they were intended for. :-)
It's worse than I thought.
Don't step on the baby.
Boo hoo... YOU non-whites still have your OWN countries to go back to.
But whites don't. Becase YOU are here. Why? Why don't you want to live around your own kind, in your own, shitty third world hellholes, where you can have all the 'emojis' of your own shitty race?
I am a Middle School computer teacher. My cirriculum has been rewritten for me, starting next year; I had no input in the process. As a Computer Science (Computer Science is now a STEM subject) teacher at a middle school I am forbidden to teach any programming. I am also being told to stop teaching computer fundamentals ( . . . whats in the box, why is more RAM [up to a point] going to make the computer work better and how does the internet work. . . material like that)The focus, and the test, is entirely on computer applications.
All the time that was going into a core understanding of computers is to be switched to more presentations. I am not against presentations; I just feel that there is a limit to how much time we spend on it. We will also take time from spreadsheet fundamentals (understanding what they are doing, instead of just putting stuff in cells . . . for that matter, what is a cell?). The reasoning is that, "kids like making pictures," and, "that other stuff is just too hard."
The trouble is that my students have measurable understanding and skill in the topics called for by the district that exceeds that of the other district teachers; so what to do with this? Full stop. Return to a consistent curriculum. That is the district decision, not mine. Part of the problem is that several of the teachers do not have the background to understand what I am teaching, let alone teach it.
However, the real problem is this; my students are entering the High School with significantly more knowledge than the students from the other district middle schools. I do understand the districts problem, there is a real problem when the student’s get to the High School and get mixed into a class when they “already know this stuff,” and the other students have not been exposed to it. Further, the students from my classes expect to learn, not to review what I already taught them.
As far as the programming, there is a fear that knowledge of programming could lead to, “Hacking.” As such, it is to completely stop, even in the “after school” extracurricular classes. The same with the computer fundamentals, the district decision is that “kids don’t need to know that anymore.” Fear of knowledge and the need for a consistent curriculum outweigh small, hard to scale, class improvements.
I was just, as in this week, told that what the teachers before me were doing was sufficient. Okay, of three teachers before me, one handed the kids a typing book and told them they needed to do one typing lesson a day and then they could play games. The second had so many personal problems that she didn't try to teach anything, she just let them play games. The most recent required them to produce something (yes, something was loosely defined), then they could . . . you guessed it, play games.
As such, I am told "the children don't like lectures and the parents think your class is hard." Here is the reality, the . . . I will say it . . . upper income, education driven, parents are in my corner; but the ones that don't come to meetings, they just cal the district to complain, parents are unhappy because, and I quote "expect him [the student] to study."
The result is that I have been given, and mandated, a curriculum for next year, as far as daily lesson plans (that don't even fit my class schedule; but that is a different issue). Guess what, work is out, make it fun, make it easy is back in. I was told that my class needs to be a place where students can take a bread from their important classes. As a closing statement, when the district consultant finished telling me what I was going to do next year, he said "it is true, we will have less content; but I feel we will have greater engagement."
What we need is a standard test so the districts that treat the computer class as a recess period (because the schools don't receive funding during recess periods) will be held accountable. It would also make it clear what content needs to be covered. What we have now provides the districts with no guidance or accountability.
What are we becoming as a [world]?
Pussies.
I'd vote Trump if I was American.
Chalking Trump 2016 on the sidewalk is something I'd pretty much ignore even if I think it won't end well if he *is* elected. I mean, I can understand a demonstration against Trump. I don't understand a demonstration against some chalk on a sidewalk.
This is what happens if you have confused identity politics instead of putting the working class (aka normal people) in the center of your politics. If anything is bad just because "it makes you feel bad" then there is literally no principle in your politics anymore. Everything is just opportunism and at the end of the day, you're a tool for the person with the loudest voice.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)
Just wait, soon those whiny students will be your coworkers.
I found it interesting when one guest on a radio show was pointing out how the helicopter parenting was expanding into college, where parents were following and making sure their kids too the right classes, go and complain to the dean on the child's behalf, etc. So right there we have a generation of college graduates who will show up with no concept about how to work independently in the real world.
Those graduates will find out that they can't get their way when they're not on college. They won't worry about micro aggressions any more because they'll have macro aggressions when they walk down the wrong street. Their performance review at work won't focus on their feelings. They're not going to be able to have an abritration about the hostile environment when the Hells Angels member moves in next door. No A-for-effort when they screw up their tax forms. People really should be able to deal with the real world that has no imaginary protection bubble before they turn 30.
So student activists from the 60s when seeing something they don't like went out on a voter registration drive; students today just want the college administration to acknowledge their pain. Something has seriously gone wrong.
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!
This is the kind of shit that gets people voting trump.
The regressive is about to get very butthurt as trump makes America great again.