Here is a good link to a UK Observer article via @lindymac that resonated with me and my thoughts about boosting the profile of computational thinking in our schools.<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.0976563); ">Programming and Computational Thinking should take pride of place in our schools</span></div>
<div><a href="http://www.diigo.com/annotated/18e448bc88f295a362bf5967726506b9">http://www.diigo.com/annotated/18e448bc88f295a362bf5967726506b9</a> (to my Diigo annotated version)</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div>Curious what others think of this comment about the government:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">".. they're </span><em class="diigoHighlight id_a5dddc16ab7ae6df3f8bb028c85b046a type_0 yellow" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; text-decoration: inherit; line-height: 18px; font: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); display: inline; position: relative; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">making the same mistake as those who saw ICT as a way of preparing kids for the world of work by training them to use Microsoft Office – ie designing a curriculum by looking into a rear-view mirror. What we ought to be doing is giving the kids the ability to operate in – and perhaps help to create – industries that nobody has even dreamed of yet."</em></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Regards Roland</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 December 2011 13:12, Donna Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donna@cc.com.au">donna@cc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 22:42 +0000, Anderson, Stuart L wrote:<br>
> I think it'd be impossible to separate the two areas because they have<br>
> grown together. There wouldn't be so many people using ICT if not for<br>
> business (and marketing!). They are not mutually exclusive and can't<br>
> be separated from each other.<br>
<br>
</div>Computing serves purposes other than business though...<br>
<br>
eg. scientific research often has no commercial application - but serve<br>
medicine, population modelling - computing has even lead to outright<br>
disruption of business models...<br>
<br>
Then again, I could be thinking of 'business' too narrowly.<br>
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:)<br>
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