Comments on: Helicopter parenting and meta-learning https://blog.red7.com/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/ Communicating in a networked world Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Parenting Articles https://blog.red7.com/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-41 Wed, 07 May 2008 01:19:44 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-41 Well in the world of today there should not have a room for mistakes. Helicopter parents are the starting point where their children learn much without committing lots of errors. The point here is making everything a step behind perfection.

-Jan

]]> By: Sky https://blog.red7.com/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-40 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:33:38 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-40 Jay, I even took courses where I learned Algol 68 and APL. (Look those up in Wikipedia!) I don’t believe anyone ever wrote a compiler for Algol 68, and APL was used only by government programmers.

We struggled for a long time before we got up on our hind legs and started calling it computer *science*.

]]> By: Jay Cross https://blog.red7.com/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-39 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:25:34 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-39 Sky, I couldn’t agree with you more. The world is going so fast that if it’s not meta, it’s not going to be around long. You undoubtedly remember Carnegie-Mellon courses that taught now obsolete programming languages rather than the algorithms of software design.

In the debate over the efficacy of Personal Learning Environments, I favored helping kids learn to create their own PLEs rather than giving them some teacher’s concept of what works for today. When I suggested that this PLE-building would follow graduates to work, I was put down for polluting the purity of academia.

Perhaps we should rate school curricula for shelf-life. What topics will be relevant in five years? Ten?

]]> By: Learnlets » Meta-learning and the future https://blog.red7.com/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-38 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:41:32 +0000 http://sky.dlfound.org/the-real-harm-of-helicopter-parenting/#comment-38 […] blog post on meta-learning is sparked by Jessica Margolin’s post on helicopter parenting. Now we’re talking! […]

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