<div name="sig_d41d8cd98f" style="margin-top:2em;margin-right:0pt;margin-bottom:2em;margin-left:0pt"><p>An interesting story in The Age today about an Australian Wiz Kid. I just put some thoughts together about this. Not suggesting schools must emulate this child but where is the constructionist learning and computational thinking that would have supported this child? Curious what others think about this.</p>
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