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Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - MNomadic - 07-18-2022
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and others have also signed on to partner with the education nonprofit Code.
https://www.zdnet.com/education/computers-tech/tech-leaders-call-for-more-computer-science-opportunities-in-schools/
RE: Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - bjcheung77 - 07-18-2022
Interesting stuff; however, the link provided is for protecting yourself from credit card fraudsters...
Here's the link: https://www.zdnet.com/education/computers-tech/tech-leaders-call-for-more-computer-science-opportunities-in-schools/
RE: Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - MNomadic - 07-18-2022
Tim Cook is pushing for more coding education too:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3667373/why-tim-cook-is-concerned-about-coding-skills.html
RE: Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - ss20ts - 07-18-2022
Honestly, this needed to happen YEARS ago. I'm still shocked at how little is taught in schools about computers in general. We all live on one! We all have a phone, tablet, laptop, whatever. How do people think they get their Candy Crush addiction filled? Someone has to design, develop, program, maintain it.
RE: Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - MNomadic - 07-18-2022
(07-18-2022, 06:58 PM)ss20ts Wrote: Honestly, this needed to happen YEARS ago. I'm still shocked at how little is taught in schools about computers in general. We all live on one! We all have a phone, tablet, laptop, whatever. How do people think they get their Candy Crush addiction filled? Someone has to design, develop, program, maintain it.
I wish I'd have been offered any kind of computer classes and I didn't graduate HS too long ago... Heck, I wish I had a typing class at some point instead of just being sat in front of a computer to play "educational" games(glorified flash cards) for 2 hours a week. It took me over 10 years removed from K-12 to realize something was wrong when it was taking me way longer to type up papers and do coding assignments than my peers. Realized I never learned touch typing and had to spend time every day practicing before I even got close to an average typing speed. And it took only the last few years before realizing tech was not just a good career path, but actually my passion!
RE: Faced with a desperate skills shortage, tech leaders plead for CS reform in schools - dfrecore - 07-19-2022
(07-18-2022, 08:08 PM)MNomadic Wrote:(07-18-2022, 06:58 PM)ss20ts Wrote: Honestly, this needed to happen YEARS ago. I'm still shocked at how little is taught in schools about computers in general. We all live on one! We all have a phone, tablet, laptop, whatever. How do people think they get their Candy Crush addiction filled? Someone has to design, develop, program, maintain it.
I wish I'd have been offered any kind of computer classes and I didn't graduate HS too long ago... Heck, I wish I had a typing class at some point instead of just being sat in front of a computer to play "educational" games(glorified flash cards) for 2 hours a week. It took me over 10 years removed from K-12 to realize something was wrong when it was taking me way longer to type up papers and do coding assignments than my peers. Realized I never learned touch typing and had to spend time every day practicing before I even got close to an average typing speed. And it took only the last few years before realizing tech was not just a good career path, but actually my passion!
I took touch typing in high school on an IBM Selectric with blacked out keys (so don't bother looking down). I have to say, it's probably one of the most useful classes I've ever taken in my life.
Both of my kids do touch-typing as well, although they learned from games (but actual typing games).