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| Teaching our kids STEM and coding won’t prepare them for the future. |
Like a lot of working parents, when I’m walking my
daughters to school or listening to them recount their days at the
dinner table, one question is often on my mind:
What should I be doing to prepare them for the world they’ll enter as adults?...
The response from schools so far has been to promote STEM—Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math—education and to teach students to
code. But will these skills really equip our kids to find success in the
future world of work?...
I’m inspired by computer scientist Seymour Papert’s belief
that it’s possible to leapfrog traditional learning pathways using
technology. Almost 40 years ago, Papert predicted that children could
develop programming skills, such as debugging, even earlier than
literacy skills, through his example of a three-year-old who couldn’t
read but could verbally and logically query a computer program to learn
about bears.
Source: Quartz
