Electronics curriculum: now and in the near future?

This question is piggy-backed off of the Galaksija thread [0] whose subject matter is firmly rooted in an 80s curriculum of DIY electronics, I suppose very much in the vein of Apple I, potentially Apple II. I’m assuming that back then there was an appetite for “this” sort of thing.

For background, I am self taught which is to say I pretend I know a thing or two but really I’m just reading data sheets and using an oscilloscope and a DMM and hoping I don’t shit the bed by short circuiting IC legs. An inductor is a wonderful thing of beauty and science fiction to me. Of course I have a soft spot for this basic assembly of prefabbed things, but it does pose a question and I wanted to ask the experienced HN EEs for their opinion.

Today we have plenty of kits to choose from thanks to companies like Velleman, Whadda, Elenco, all the way to fully assembled processors like Arduino, STM, and so on. Buy it, program it, flash it, you’re good to go. Clearly the landscape has changed, but a lot of it rhymes with the aforementioned 80s vision of putting black boxes together based on basic voltage/current/logic gates expectations. We still receive manuals of how to assemble the board, parts of the rudimentary components up to various ICs and transistors and we put them together with a bit of solder and some helping hands. Of course, cheap FR-4 boards, KiCad and all that is at our fingertips along with Digi-Key/Mouser, and so on if we want to get creative. And let’s not forget YouTube that covers just about everything.

How would you approach an electronics curriculum today? Is this the same way to go? What would you do differently? Do you see anything really changing in terms of the mode of operation or are we “stuck” doing V=IR, op amps and LCR topology configurations?

Feel free to go off tangent and ramble, I’m hoping an EE will step in and teach us a profound thing or two :-).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40978894