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Hotly contested: Should coding be mandatory?
06/30/2015
Topics: Coding & robotics, Curriculum, Education leadership, ISTE Conference & Expo
Schools in industrialized countries across the globe are having a debate: Should teaching coding and computer science be a mandatory part of curriculum? That discussion took place on a smaller scale at ISTE 2015, where four experts weighed in during a modified Oxford-style debate session titled…
Time to redesign curriculum for the digital age
12/03/2014
Topics: Curriculum, Standards
In too many schools, technology integration has come to mean retrofitting new technology to outdated curriculum. Digital tools are tacked onto lessons, simply replacing functions that were once performed with traditional tools, such as pen and paper.
There's a wide gulf between…