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Creating A Digitally Focused Generation?

And so it happened … Mark Logan (former COO at Skyscanner) — in a commissioned report for the Scotland government — said:

“At school, Computer Science should be seen as equal to Maths and Science subjects”

So how can this be done? Well, the focus must be a root-and-branch approach to integrating coding into every level at school, and then onto university/college. This means that there were be transitions from where we are now — having very few students who can code naturally — to one where every child who leaves school will be able to code, and in understanding how technology actually works.

I’d say, we need the following:

• Make Computer Science a compulsory topic at secondary school for Year 1 to Year 4, and then optional at Year 5 and Year 6.
• Create high-level (and fairly simple) objectives of what we want to achieve, such as “We want every child to understand how data is captured, process and analysed for machine learning, and to make reasoned judgements on the information provided”.
• Think more about the future than the past.
• Get interesting data sets, that make kids think about their world, and how data can provide evidence for improvements.
• Show how computer science will solve key problems in…