It's a cute "how do I reach these kids?" idea -- find what they like and explain the concepts with custom-tailored analogues.

I don't think the failure mode here is really "7th graders will see through the superficiality of this really quick". I think the failure mode here will be:

> Explain computer science basics for a 7th grader interested in poop and butt-sniffing

Although who knows... maybe this will unleash a generation of memes of the likes we have never seen before. And if the side-effect is more people are at least conversant in more topics, well, maybe that's not a failure mode at all

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non_aligned 4 days ago | parent [-]

> It's a cute "how do I reach these kids?" idea

But... which kids? Do we have a fundamental problem reaching kids who are interested in basketball? My kid had a period of being interested in dinosaurs, but I never felt the need to reframe everything in dinosaur-terms because of that. In fact, you kinda want them to broaden their horizons beyond dinosaurs?

The real challenges in education are elsewhere, and a lot of it has to do with socioeconomic status and bad influences early in life.

	▲	rhetocj23 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		"a lot of it has to do with socioeconomic status and bad influences early in life." Haha, you think most Googlers understand this? No chance. This is why products like this fail, dead on arrival - the person leading the charge simply doesnt get it. But hey go ahead and burn the cash of shareholders.