I have reason to be optimistic. Over the last few weeks I've been attending "TeachMeets" [1], where teachers, in their own free time, meet up and share 7 minute

I have reason to be optimistic. Over the last few weeks I've been attending "TeachMeets" [1], where teachers, in their own free time, meet up and share 7 minute talks about things they're trying in the classroom. The number of teachers bring coding into the classroom is way higher than I expected. And not just senior school either: this teacher [2] is teaching coding in K-2 classrooms. So kids as young as 5 years old. And she's not the only one. What is cool is also seeing some of them talk about exactly what you mention: teaching computational concepts without necessarily getting in to coding. Teachers are figuring out ways to do this, in games, activities, and hands-on projects that kids enjoy. Teaching students computational thinking, and then algorithms. Then when they start writing code, it makes a lot more sense. Seeing teachers doing all this over the last month has left me feeling way more optimistic... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeachMeet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeachMeet [2]: https://twitter.com/GeekyAusTeacher https://twitter.com/GeekyAusTeacher