teaching coding at schools is bad

My note: no, it is not

Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
My note: it is NOT about creating masses of programmers and driving the salaries down, as the author claims; it is about fostering a generation, which is technology literate. A doctor, knowing how to code will be a better doctor in the era of IoT; a philosopher knowing how to code will be better in the era of digital humanities.

 

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more on coding in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=coding

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