Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.

Parents will not be able to “opt” children out of digital learning classes because they do not agree with iPad use for youngsters.

Educators argue the classes will equip the children with the skills they will need for the jobs of the future, ensuring they can read and write the global language of the digital age.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/coding-classes-in-queensland-schools-mandatory-from-2017/8018178?section=science

Divine Angel said:

Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.

Parents will not be able to “opt” children out of digital learning classes because they do not agree with iPad use for youngsters.

Educators argue the classes will equip the children with the skills they will need for the jobs of the future, ensuring they can read and write the global language of the digital age.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/coding-classes-in-queensland-schools-mandatory-from-2017/8018178?section=science

If I’d learnt coding at the age of four I’d be a rich man today.

Bubblecar said:

Divine Angel said:

Queensland children as young as four will learn coding and robotics as a compulsory part of their education from next year.

Parents will not be able to “opt” children out of digital learning classes because they do not agree with iPad use for youngsters.

Educators argue the classes will equip the children with the skills they will need for the jobs of the future, ensuring they can read and write the global language of the digital age.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/coding-classes-in-queensland-schools-mandatory-from-2017/8018178?section=science

If I’d learnt coding at the age of four I’d be a rich man today.

If you’d learnt coding at the age of four then your computer language would be obsolete by now. Coding these days involves pushing icons around the screen and linking them with arrows.

Coding was part of my final year high school curriculum, but wasn’t compulsory.

There’s a famous old video of a child in nappies too young to talk who was computer literate on the first Apple Macintosh.

mollwollfumble said:

. Coding these days involves pushing icons around the screen and linking them with arrows.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person in the world who still codes by typing text into a text editor.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

. Coding these days involves pushing icons around the screen and linking them with arrows.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person in the world who still codes by typing text into a text editor.

the kids are learning coding at school at the moment… the icon pushing was as part of the introduction, then visual bars.. now they are doing text based coding.

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

. Coding these days involves pushing icons around the screen and linking them with arrows.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person in the world who still codes by typing text into a text editor.

no, you are not… but what Moll says is true, most of the high level educational coding packages are simply about linking pre-defined code modules… some of it is quite elegant.

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

bob(from black rock) said:

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

lot of mind structure built during that period, probably extending into early twenties. I’m old fashioned, I think children should have a childhood.

transition said:

bob(from black rock) said:

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

lot of mind structure built during that period, probably extending into early twenties. I’m old fashioned, I think children should have a childhood.

how is learning about stuff not ‘childhood’?

diddly-squat said:

transition said:

bob(from black rock) said:

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

lot of mind structure built during that period, probably extending into early twenties. I’m old fashioned, I think children should have a childhood.

how is learning about stuff not ‘childhood’?

oh’t is, don’t get me wrong. A very good thing.

bob(from black rock) said:

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

they might be able to with some headphones and appropriate subliminal recordings

transition said:

bob(from black rock) said:

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

lot of mind structure built during that period, probably extending into early twenties. I’m old fashioned, I think children should have a childhood.

learning stuff at school is part of the childhood

bob(from black rock) said:

transition said:

good idea, but not sure about the whatever having the children younger and younger

Well they cant learn it “in utero”

nevermind

¿are they removing useless stuff from the requirements in exchange?

undefined said:

¿are they removing useless stuff from the requirements in exchange?

I wish.

When you show teachers the peer reviewed studies that clearly demonstrate that homework for primary school kids is pointless, they roll their eyes and tell you that parent’s want their kids doing home work. Same goes for cursive.

I’d love for my son to be learning coding at school. He’d get a lot more out of it than the current syllabus which he has great difficulty engaging with. He loves computers. I’d rather he learn how to make a game than how to define the first person infrickative in a dull story he has no interest in reading.

Teleost said:

undefined said:

¿are they removing useless stuff from the requirements in exchange?

I wish.

When you show teachers the peer reviewed studies that clearly demonstrate that homework for primary school kids is pointless, they roll their eyes and tell you that parent’s want their kids doing home work. Same goes for cursive.

I’d love for my son to be learning coding at school. He’d get a lot more out of it than the current syllabus which he has great difficulty engaging with. He loves computers. I’d rather he learn how to make a game than how to define the first person infrickative in a dull story he has no interest in reading.

Not sure it is pointless, Asians are overrepresented in higher educations scores and that is put down to home work and coaching colleges. Stands to reason, the more you do something, are corrected at something and instructed in something the better at something you get. Not sure I would take teachers rolling their eyes as evidence of anything, education in Australia is going backwards.