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

[tom.]

So, can we compromise on teaching infants to debug?

My experience has been that the more important critical thinking skill 
in ICT is to be able to explain why someone's cherished toy is broken - 
then fix it.

Any benighted soul that had to wade through the munged meta-code from a 
CASE tool will agree?   ;-)

tom.

On 06/06/15 08:25, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> On 6/06/2015 9:07 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> But I am not sure how you teach or test "critical thinking".
> The whole of the engineering profession is based upon critical thinking,
> with the addition of the theories that come from science.
>
> Which is maybe why most engineering projects succeed while most large
> scale IT projects fail.
>