[LINK] Let's pause before drinking the 'coding in schools' Kool-Aid

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 03/06/15 14:12, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 3/06/2015 7:37 PM, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
>
>> So forgive those of us who promote 'coding in schools' and recognise
>> what we are attempting to do perhaps clumsily but you might accept the
>> validity of the reasons we are doing it.
>
> The reasons are admirable but IMHO "computational thinking" is a
> simplistic objective and coding is not the route to that objective anyway.
>
It is but let's at least take the 'organic' approach to get folks in 
authority aka those with the money at least beginning the journey.  We 
can wax lyrical ad nauseum but if we do not begin to use common 
messaging around 'coding' (to mean whatever you want it to mean,) so 
long as we get the necessary changes to attitudes happening that will 
allow us to reach those goals you mention.

That's my simplistic way, some progress is better than no progress and 
if we seek to develop deeper understanding right now, we run the risk of 
having no result at all.

cheers
brenda

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