Coding in Schools: The Why
Photo by Florian Olivo on Unsplash I remember many years ago when coding first became a rage among progressive teachers and thinking it made sense. Many of the arguments I heard were about jobs and future employment. I also heard some arguments about coding being like learning a foreign language. This made a lot of sense to me because there are some parallels I can see: coding has a kind of grammar with its syntax, coding has a vocabulary and if you don't know it, you need to learn it to speak fluently, coding communicates a message. And I tried to incorporate coding - for a time. Then, I kind of stopped. I wish I were back in the classroom because I would find a way to incorporate coding into the curriculum. I think it is more than just a job skill or another language - there is so much more to it. In the past few weeks especially I have been working on a coding project and I have noticed a few skills that I use frequently: Resilience - my code often doesn't work. W...