Everyone Should Code

This is a presentation I've given several times to high school educators and students. It resonates very well with how they think about curriculum.

Transcript

1. Everyone Should Code Jeff Blankenburg Technical Evangelist Microsoft
2. “Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code.” Richard Branson - Founder, Virgin
3. “Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.” Bill Gates - Chairman, Microsoft
4. “Everyone should code.” Jeff Blankenburg, just now
5. digital natives
10. They can read. They can’t write.
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14. We learned to read. Then we read to learn.
15. We didn’t learn to write so that we could be professional writers.
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17. They learn to code. Then they code to learn.
18. We’re not teaching programming so that they’ll all be professional coders.
19. median pay $84,200
20. design projects collaboration reasoning logic
22. What do we want students to know?
23. What abilities do we want them to have?
24. problem solving.
25. critical thinking.
26. the ability to fail. often. (and quickly)
27. the ability to teach themselves something. (not memorize)
28. the ability to break things into manageable chunks.
29. the ability to explain something to the DUMBEST thing on earth. (a computer)