{"id":1686,"date":"2026-04-13T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:24:53","slug":"a-better-take-on-computers-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":"A better take on computers and kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doc.searls.com\/2026\/04\/13\/the-kids-take-over-2\/\">doc.searls.com\/2026\/04\/13\/the-kids-take-over-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to empower kids in schools to really use the tools of now. AI, CNC, robotics, programming, all integrated into the curriculum instead of firewalled into a speciality class. Starting in Kindergarten, like reading. \u00a0The \u201ccoding\u201d push in the last few years was always a dead end, focused on job skills and quickly superseded by AI. \u00a0But the approach described here is about empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/04\/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2026\/04\/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain\/<\/a>, which documents a thoroughly frustrated take on how (higher level) education is grappling with AI. \u00a0What are the institutions missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>doc.searls.com\/2026\/04\/13\/the-kids-take-over-2\/ How to empower kids in schools to really use the tools of now. AI, CNC, robotics, programming, all integrated into the curriculum instead of firewalled into a speciality class. Starting in Kindergarten, like reading. \u00a0The \u201ccoding\u201d push in the last few years was always a dead end, focused on job skills and quickly superseded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}