on feeling stupid as a bag of hammers

[rmd]

nothing makes me reconsider my abilities and knowledge like considering how to take some subject i think i know about and crushing it into a 8 or 10 session class suitable for high school students.

i'm thinking about putting together a class for the MIT High School Studies Program, but not sure what to do. i could easily do a "how the internet works" class, i guess.

i did teach a basic circuits class for the HSSP one-shot class "SPLASH" program back when i was in college, but i'd have to re-learn the details on much of that before i felt comfortable teaching it. i could teach something non-technical, but i'm not sure what.

definitely, there's something about trying to put together a class and explicitly teach people things that's down there with jobhunting as a thing that brings out my "i know nothing, i'm stupid as a bag of hammers" self-doubt.

must ponder how and why this is so...

Comments

[marith.livejournal.com]

I think an Internet class would be a great idea, because you understand it at a nuts-and-bolts level and very few people do. The students you teach will be using it for the rest of their lives, and would doubtless appreciate not having to think of it as a black box.

(Mind you, I use the electricity in my apartment without knowing exactly how it works, but it'd be better if I did.)