I'm Kieran Nolan, an educational technologist with 20+ years in classrooms. This is where I write up what actually happens when primary school kids get their hands on real networks, real servers, Minecraft, robotics, game development, VR and Bitcoin. Field notes, not theory. Articles get posted for discussion to Stacker News ~education, a territory managed by the Digital Playhouse Foundation, the charity I serve on the board of.
A six-week, whole-school program: 16 classes from Foundation to Year 6, two castles, two real Umbrel servers to defend, versioned builds approved by team consensus, and a final-day hunt for a hidden IP address.
Read the articleA WebVR exhibition built with A-Frame: student artwork floats framed in a 360° panorama, published by dropping files into a GitHub repo, with an infinite auto-tour that visitors can take over at any moment.
Read the articleStudent-made MakeCode games published to a live arcade wall: NES-style cartridges, a Google Sheet as the CMS, controllers plugged into the big screen, and Lightning zaps as the leaderboard.
Read the articleA dedicated Starlink uplink, recycled desktop servers, four self-hosted DNS filters and a live monitoring wall. Why the classroom runs its own network, and what students learn from infrastructure they can touch.
Read the articleFive rounds of real security challenges, Google Forms as the submission system, a live leaderboard with nearly 200 students on it, and one round built around counting the sats in a real Bitcoin wallet.
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