You have got to read this. It is a commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut and you can find it at this great website, “Brain Pickings,” Maria Popova wrote a wonderful article with excerpts from Vonnegut’s commencement addresses.
This is the line that hooked me:
Looks like I am on a Raspberry Pi binge again. I checked my email this morning and found this:
Augment Your Reality With The iTorch raspberry pi flashlight projector
Wouldn’t it be great if we let kids in school work on projects that they were interested in?
It wouldn’t have to be computer-related. Instead of drill and practice for standardized exams they could make an augmented reality device, paint a picture, make a Rube Goldberg machine, make a movie, a cartoon, write a novel. I think anything like this would be better than the deadening, creative killing process we put kids through in most schools.