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Roger Schank would disagree, I think: "'Everyone should learn to code' is the new way of saying we need to create compliant factory workers and that the real p
by giardini 9y ago
Roger Schank would disagree, I think:
"'Everyone should learn to code' is the new way of saying we need to create compliant factory workers and that the real purpose of school is to make sure that we are training people for the 'factory jobs' of the future."...
"I was amused when President Obama said that everyone should learn to code, since while I am guessing that Cook can code, I am pretty sure Obama cannot, so why does he care? And, what does he actually know about coding?"
from
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-code-new-way-create-modern-day-factory-workers-roger-schank https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/learning-code-new-way-create-...
It's a short but interesting article about the evolution of Schank's thoughts about teaching programming.