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Nouvelle Revue ("We must teach our children with the code"), with interest and admiration. In Great Britain, the debate on teaching computer science in schools is moving fast and in the right direction.
last summer, I gave a lecture at MacTaggart International Television Festival in Edinburgh. In a speech an hour on the future of broadcasting, it was a minute or two on the state of education in computer science who has made headlines and appeared to nail on the head.
The problem, I said that Britain was at risk of throwing the mainframe heritage - Bletchley Park for the BBC Micro - by not investing in the proper education of computer science. I was amazed to learn that computers are not taught as standard in British schools. Information technology and communication (ICT) has been very often teach children how to use software products such as word processing and spreadsheets, but without giving an idea of ??how the software was created.
During the last decade, the number of people studying computer science in the UK has been reduced by 23% at university level and 34% at the graduate level. Computing as an academic discipline that is less than half of 1% of A-levels taken in 2011 - which is only 4000 students
only seven months later, I am amazed at how much the climate has changed. Following the recommendations useful in the next comprehensive report of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), the video game industry and the report of the Royal Society in computers in schools in January, the Secretary of 'Education, Michael Gove, is the courageous decision to abandon the current program of ICT, the liberation of the schools to teach a richer mix of computers, programming and up front.
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The Guardian s campaign in the digital literacy and the work of organizations such as the British Computer Society and the School of Information Technology have provided concrete and practical contributions in the debate. An innovative start-up called Decoded offers workshops to teach business people and students the basics of coding in a single day. The timely arrival of the computer cheap, accessible Raspberry Pi holds the promise of a new generation of young people to learn to write code that has not seen since the days of the great BBC Micro, which helped launching the careers of many British Google software engineers. It should be noted that only 2% of Google's software engineers tell us who were not exposed to the encoding in high school.
course, a lot of work to do to implement a curriculum for computer science viable. The courses do not yet exist and there is a severe shortage of adequately trained teachers to teach the subject. And while industry must play its role by helping to shape this new program can not and should try to dictate. In short, the stakes are too high for that. Here is why.
Last year, world population reached a record $ 7 billion, but the number of people online has reached 2 million only. For most people on Earth, the digital revolution has not yet begun. Over the next 10 years, everything will change. There will be major improvements in digital infrastructure in the developing world - cable networks go faster and go further. The smartphone revolution is universal. In 12 years, mobile phones will be 20 times faster, phones that cost $ 400 today will be available for about $ 20
In this world, elites remain, but no longer have a monopoly on progress and opportunities. Everywhere become more resourceful - nobody will be able to start a business, a means of communication or at a school in his hut or trailer. The technology will be a great leveler and countries that can provide its youth with the tools to dominate, rather than simply using prosperous.
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