Canada Learning Code launches K-12 computer science education framework | Canadian Startup News - BetaKit

Canada Learning Code, a non-profit organization that promotes digital literacy education, has unveiled a new national computer science education framework designed to serve students from kindergarten to Grade 12, summarizes Josh Scott, journalist at BetaKit.

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The organization’s ‘K-12 Computer Science Education Framework’ aims to guide Canadian educators on what students need to know to correct what it calls “inaccessible” and “inconsistent” computer science education across Canada.

The non-profit hopes its new framework informs computer science education across the country...

The new framework addresses what the organization considers five “fundamental learning outcomes,” including coding and programming, computer and networks, data, technology, and society and design. Canada Learning Code said the framework allows students to enter at various stages of learning, regardless of age or grade level.

The launch of the framework, which can be applied remotely, comes amid the rise of remote learning, homeschooling, and safety fears regarding a potential return to in-person schooling this fall due to COVID-19.
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Source: BetaKit