We home educate our children (the eldest is 7). Home education forces parents to ask themselves "which curriculum?". In answer to that question, I want to give my children a classical education (i.e. trivium and quadrivium). However, this type of curriculum is hard to come by and I haven't seen any which are free to use - so I have started to develop my own.
The first element of the trivium is grammar, that is, the structure of language. I have interpreted this to mean "structure more broadly", such that I'm now looking into the structure of matter (atom and molecules) and the structure of plants and animals (cells) as well as the structure of English and Latin.
Where am I going with this? Two things:
1) I think you / we need to take something relevant (digital systems in your case) and break it down into its basic components such that we can reconstruct a product which suits our needs;
2) Time needs to be set aside for this task.
To achieve point number 1 you have to be militant about point number 2.
Speaking from personal experience, I have sat down many a time and set goals for how I wanted the curriculum to look. However, it wasn't until I started building it that I saw the correct way to go.
To repeat point 1 above, maybe start by taking a digital application you think is OK but warrants some improvements, pull it apart and then start rebuilding it in a way that suits your / the community's needs.
Gosh Gabriel, you write so very eloquently! Who knew a computer “nerd” could speak so well! (Just joking mate, don’t take that the wrong way! Aussie at large here!)
I absolutely hate computers and don’t know much about them! I only use an iPad for internet, and my phone is a very old phone. That’s it-it’s a phone. I don’t want to use it for internet or as a camera or any damned dig ID or bitcoin or CBDCs or vax passport etc, etc.
I hadn’t even thought, about the UN being involved in all this, so thanks for telling me. I wish they’d just leave us alone, and let us get on with out OWN lives!
Another thing that bothers me a lot is AI of course. Who knows where we’ll end up with that! Maybe nothing really bad will happen, maybe it will! See what I know!
But thanks Gabriel, keep on with your great articles, and eventually I will learn something! I’m so non-tech I could change my user name to “zero tech by 2026”. I could possibly achieve that, whereas we all know that no country will be no carbon emissions by 2050. They lie!
Hi Gabe,
I'm thinking out loud here so bear with me!
We home educate our children (the eldest is 7). Home education forces parents to ask themselves "which curriculum?". In answer to that question, I want to give my children a classical education (i.e. trivium and quadrivium). However, this type of curriculum is hard to come by and I haven't seen any which are free to use - so I have started to develop my own.
The first element of the trivium is grammar, that is, the structure of language. I have interpreted this to mean "structure more broadly", such that I'm now looking into the structure of matter (atom and molecules) and the structure of plants and animals (cells) as well as the structure of English and Latin.
Where am I going with this? Two things:
1) I think you / we need to take something relevant (digital systems in your case) and break it down into its basic components such that we can reconstruct a product which suits our needs;
2) Time needs to be set aside for this task.
To achieve point number 1 you have to be militant about point number 2.
Speaking from personal experience, I have sat down many a time and set goals for how I wanted the curriculum to look. However, it wasn't until I started building it that I saw the correct way to go.
To repeat point 1 above, maybe start by taking a digital application you think is OK but warrants some improvements, pull it apart and then start rebuilding it in a way that suits your / the community's needs.
All the best,
Luke
Gosh Gabriel, you write so very eloquently! Who knew a computer “nerd” could speak so well! (Just joking mate, don’t take that the wrong way! Aussie at large here!)
I absolutely hate computers and don’t know much about them! I only use an iPad for internet, and my phone is a very old phone. That’s it-it’s a phone. I don’t want to use it for internet or as a camera or any damned dig ID or bitcoin or CBDCs or vax passport etc, etc.
I hadn’t even thought, about the UN being involved in all this, so thanks for telling me. I wish they’d just leave us alone, and let us get on with out OWN lives!
Another thing that bothers me a lot is AI of course. Who knows where we’ll end up with that! Maybe nothing really bad will happen, maybe it will! See what I know!
But thanks Gabriel, keep on with your great articles, and eventually I will learn something! I’m so non-tech I could change my user name to “zero tech by 2026”. I could possibly achieve that, whereas we all know that no country will be no carbon emissions by 2050. They lie!
Do you any opinion about Urbit?
It's working on interesting problems but I'm very skeptical of the figures associated with it and underlying motivation.