Saturday, 5 May 2012

Digital Classrooms and Computer Coding

I found myself listening to this broadcast on ABC Radio National recently.  It details some of the issues many of us are grappling with in the classrooms - one to one; management etc. 

The second half of the broadcast explores whether we are disempowering students when we don't teach them the computer coding we once did.  With all the pull-downs, icons, wysiwyg editors that hide the programing - do users understand how things work? 

Another interesting piece was Sydney University's program for introducing/energising/mentoring female high school students into the world of computer science and the breadth that such study can give you.

Well worth a listen if you have 20 minutes or so.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/digital-classrooms-and-computer-coding/3969160

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