What has been most surprising to you about running an online course for high school students?
Related: If someone were creating a course about effective altruism aimed at high school students, what advice would you have for them? So far, attempts to teach EA concepts to this audience haven’t been very successful, but people are still interested in trying new methods.
Hmm, I thought that running discussion sessions with the students might be hard, but it was quite natural! I was lucky to get a great group of students in the first cohort.
There were some gaps in their knowledge I didn’t anticipate. They weren’t very familiar with simple machines and mechanical advantage, with basic molecular biochemistry such as proteins and DNA, or with basic financial/​accounting concepts such as fixed vs. variable cost.
Aaron, I’m really ignorant about this issue but didn’t Peter Singer have a course on EA a while back that if I recall correctly was fairly accessible and could be marketed towards high school students?
What has been most surprising to you about running an online course for high school students?
Related: If someone were creating a course about effective altruism aimed at high school students, what advice would you have for them? So far, attempts to teach EA concepts to this audience haven’t been very successful, but people are still interested in trying new methods.
Hmm, I thought that running discussion sessions with the students might be hard, but it was quite natural! I was lucky to get a great group of students in the first cohort.
There were some gaps in their knowledge I didn’t anticipate. They weren’t very familiar with simple machines and mechanical advantage, with basic molecular biochemistry such as proteins and DNA, or with basic financial/​accounting concepts such as fixed vs. variable cost.
Not sure what to say about an EA course, sorry!
Thank you for the reply! Just wanted to let you know I’d seen it :-)
Aaron, I’m really ignorant about this issue but didn’t Peter Singer have a course on EA a while back that if I recall correctly was fairly accessible and could be marketed towards high school students?