Coding for Kids

codingforkids.org:

This group was created by a community of people brought together on the 12th October 2011 at the Guardian, York Way, London - made up of young people, teachers, ex-teachers, developers, parents and industry with the purpose of finding ways to support education of programming and computational thinking for the current and next generations in the UK. Whether this be through traditional education methods - or other stuff.

One of the catalysts was a speech by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in which he said the country that invented the computer was "throwing away your great computer heritage" by failing to teach programming in schools. "I was flabbergasted to learn that today computer science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools," he said. "Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made" (Full text of lecture], view lecture online).

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 17, 2011 1:29 AM
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