paul martin
1 min readMay 12, 2020

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I have used Oppia for a while — once enthusiastically. I have chatted with Sean too a few times. It is a wonderful product but needs a restart.

Congrats to you guys that there are 3 (paid) internships from across the world, but in these more than ever online learning times such is a drop in the PR ocean. (I am sure you are doing other good work too).

Originally, this work came of Google with a fanfair but seems to have been pushed to one side, as a charity. Now I don’t know where you get your money from but it would seem to me to be an ideal opportunity to go back to Google and ask for some more, lots.

In Scotland Google and Microsoft are neck and neck. The former is big in such as Aberdeen led in the Local Authority by @Charlie_Love, Microsoft elsewhere. In the UK, Scotland has not adopted a (national)coding curriculum where learning how to program is a requirement for kids. Yes some use Scratch but until (fairly) recently it did not work on Apple ipads. I reiterate one of the strengths of Oppia is its visual programming metaphor where logic can be pictorially represented. If you turned up at a school in Scotland and said: here is an experiment (and a few $) I am sure that you would be welcomed with open arms.

Think big and good luck.

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