{"id":3244,"date":"2014-10-01T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnedleadership.org\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2014-10-01T11:30:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:30:46","slug":"should-schools-be-teaching-kids-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/should-schools-be-teaching-kids-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Schools be Teaching Kids Coding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to think so!\u00a0 No doubt there are a ton of interesting skills like problem solving and collaboration that are developed through coding, but does that justify the call for everyone to learn to code?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure, but I&#8217;m sure many would disagree with me.\u00a0 Still depending on what demographic of students you teach, I wonder whether coding is worth it?<\/p>\n<p>Why do I think this?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-l5LA7PzAgdM\/UfgRzNoyOCI\/AAAAAAAACLQ\/A_V9JqJ484E\/s1600\/binary.jpg?resize=400%2C400\" alt=\"Is Coding the next call center job?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Should Schools Be Teaching Coding?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well it seems that because of the virtual nature of coding anyone anywhere in the world can do it.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll certainly need more coders in the future, but I wonder whether this will become a job dominated by distant website developers in developing countries.\u00a0 For example, before I redeveloped Learn[ed]Leadership myself I commissioned <a href=\"http:\/\/sinosicat.com\/\">Cat Trivino<\/a>, a talented &amp; young 19-year-old Filipina website designer to build the original site.\u00a0 It cost me about $350 dollars and required no coding ability on my part to get it done.\u00a0 What&#8217;s crazier is that I&#8217;ve actually never met Cat in person, because all of our communications have been via email.\u00a0 She designed the logo, layout, even my business cards.\u00a0 What did I bring to the table besides money?\u00a0\u00a0 A vision for what I wanted.\u00a0 Want another example?\u00a0 Yesterday I wanted to change my sidebar width on this website.\u00a0 I looked at a bunch of blogging websites to try and figure out how to do it, but still had no clue.\u00a0 However, on a blogging forum I posted my problem and within minutes received the code to fix the sidebar.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t cost me a penny.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I have more thoughts on this, but I&#8217;m starting to think, at least at my school, we need more design thinkers, not only more coders.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to think so!\u00a0 No doubt there are a ton of interesting skills like problem solving and collaboration that are developed through coding, but does that justify the call for everyone to learn to code?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so sure, but I&#8217;m sure many would disagree with me.\u00a0 Still depending on what demographic of students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,59,75,260],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andys-deep-thoughts","tag-code","tag-coding","tag-design-thinking","tag-website-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BJbv-Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}