Our Old Ways of Teaching Coding at School Are At An End … Meet The New Way Forward!

In Scotland, the Higher subject for Computer Science showed the greatest fall in the numbers of pupils taking the exam for any subject, and it is now the 19th most popular Higher at school. We are now reaching a point, that we must admit our 1980s methods of teaching coding are at an end! We are switching kids off coding by the droves, and we risk never being able to get them back.

Our world will become immersed in data, and the jobs of the future will involve coding/scripting for virtually every profession, and in the way that we currently use spreadsheets. But still we continue to only present coding in Computer Science classes, as if software has little impact on our world, and that it is still a niche topic.

So how do we create the next generation of tech creators rather than one of tech users? Unfortunately, we are not doing a good job at this, and while the world moves into software, there’s little trace of the next generation seeing software coding as a natural part of our work.

Why? Well, politicians think that we can purchase iPads for every child, and that will make them tech creators, but, in the end, these devices to little to enhance the learning of coding/scripting, and basically become Internet search tools. The only true way is to start…