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Great stuff! Speaking from the UK (where this was mandated back in 2010), it's all very well having a curriculum, but what if none of the teachers have the skil
by ntoll 9y ago
Great stuff! Speaking from the UK (where this was mandated back in 2010), it's all very well having a curriculum, but what if none of the teachers have the skills needed to deliver effective and inspiring learning?
In the UK the government said, "make it so" and failed to provide training or resources for the many computing teachers who don't know how to program (which is most of them since the vast majority of UK based computing teachers come from non-computing subjects like business studies).The difference in quality of teaching, expectation of attainment and learning resources is staggering.
I wish NZ well, but I hope they realize that the teachers are fundamental in making this a success. A lack of investment in teacher training or classroom resources will make this dead in the water.
- davidgerard 9y agoScratch works pretty well in practice, to get across to kids that computers aren't magic: https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-out-scratch-is-probably-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/127964136013/it-turns-ou... https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137374628373/scratch-is-probably-still-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137374628373/scratch-is-... https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137376311558/scratch-is-probably-still-the-answer https://reddragdiva.tumblr.com/post/137376311558/scratch-is-... That's in the UK. The maths teacher was pretty on the ball here, but the main thing is it caught the kids' interest and communicated the concept of programmability. Scratch for young children, Python later and you've basically got this coding thing introduced.