...from Teaching Kids to Code - EdSurge Guides
Every era demands--and rewards--different skills.
In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake bread, create a soufflé, write a story or shoot hoops.
Now we are teaching them to code.
We are teaching them to code, however, not so much as an end in itself but because our world has morphed: so many of the things we once did with elements such as fire and iron, or tools such as pencil and paper, are now wrought in code. We are teaching coding to help our kids craft their future.
In this collection we share many different perspectives on coding, from a university professor's vantage point (MIT's Mitch Resnick describes why learning to code is like learning to learn) to an entrepreneur's reflections from his cross-country roadtrip to bring coding--and his stuffed dog--to classrooms across the U.S.
You can learn to code on your own by dipping into one of over 50 tools for learning to code that we've compiled (check out the bottom of this page). Or you can pack your kids off to summer coding camp, as Charley Locke explains.
We should always teach children to bake bread, feed the goats and wield a hammer. But throwing in a little Java could take them a long way, too.
