[keithpeter]

"The same could be said about nearly everything we teach in K-12 at some point in the subject's history"

I've been teaching for 25 years in post 18 colleges in the UK, and I have the granddaughter of one of my first students in my class now (god I feel old, my consolation is that granny was a mature student in her late 20s/early 30s when she did maths with me).

Many of my students are earning money from jobs that did not exist when I was teaching them.

Stuff changes, but learning how to think does not. There is a tension between the synthetic and the analytic, and we need both. Teenagers need to learn attention to detail, and the big picture, and time planning, and the focusing of attention. The school syllabus in every country is a political compromise that shifts over time.

I think a little space for end user style programming might help with the analytic and synthetic modes a little.

Challenge: Learn Puredata the hard way, let's do the attention to detail thing your books do to music by constructing sound?