Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital

This book explores the premise that coding is an essential 21st century skill required for all. Learning of coding does not merely mean learn the syntax, grammar and usage of a specific computer language like Python or Ruby, but the deeper concept...

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Main Authors: Parandekar, Suhas D., Patarakin, Evgeny, Yayla, Gulcan
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-367262021-12-14T05:10:46Z Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital Parandekar, Suhas D. Patarakin, Evgeny Yayla, Gulcan EDUCATION COMPUTATIONAL THINKING CODING COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY SCHOOL CURRICULUM EXTRA-CURRICULAR EDUCATION TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GENDER DISABILITY ASSESSMENT TOOL COLLABORATION YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SCRATCHERS' NETWORK SCRATCH ENVIRONMENT CREATIVE COMPUTING This book explores the premise that coding is an essential 21st century skill required for all. Learning of coding does not merely mean learn the syntax, grammar and usage of a specific computer language like Python or Ruby, but the deeper concept of computational thinking. It is possible to learn aspects of computational thinking without learning coding, but coding is essential to acquire a sound understanding and knowledge of computational thinking. The book is intended to be helpful to policy makers at the Federal and Regional level who are concerned about the need for the Russian Education system to be responsive to the demands that will be faced by children growing up today into a networked, connected world of ever-increasing digitization and online and offline collaboration. The book will also be helpful to teachers and parents and other adults who are interested in understanding more about the subject of preparing children for the 21st century from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It is also useful to explain what this book is not, even though it refers to a substantive body of rich and growing academic work on the subject, it is not intended to be an academic work that would contribute new knowledge. Most of this academic work does not appear in headlines or social media feeds of non-specialists, but quite a bit of the work is very interesting and relevant. This book has tried to translate some of this knowledge in understandable terms to policy makers and practitioners, without oversimplifying complex realities. An extensive set of references including website urls will allow the interested reader to delve deeper into any of the topics. 2021-12-13T22:14:32Z 2021-12-13T22:14:32Z 2019-03-22 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/815941635455574159/Children-Learning-to-Code-Essential-for-21st-Century-Human-Capital-A-Primer-for-Russian-Policy-Makers-and-Practitioners http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36726 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Education Study Europe and Central Asia Russian Federation
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topic EDUCATION
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
CODING
COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
EXTRA-CURRICULAR EDUCATION
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GENDER
DISABILITY
ASSESSMENT TOOL
COLLABORATION
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
SCRATCHERS' NETWORK
SCRATCH ENVIRONMENT
CREATIVE COMPUTING
spellingShingle EDUCATION
COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
CODING
COMPUTATIONAL LITERACY
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
EXTRA-CURRICULAR EDUCATION
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GENDER
DISABILITY
ASSESSMENT TOOL
COLLABORATION
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
SCRATCHERS' NETWORK
SCRATCH ENVIRONMENT
CREATIVE COMPUTING
Parandekar, Suhas D.
Patarakin, Evgeny
Yayla, Gulcan
Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
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description This book explores the premise that coding is an essential 21st century skill required for all. Learning of coding does not merely mean learn the syntax, grammar and usage of a specific computer language like Python or Ruby, but the deeper concept of computational thinking. It is possible to learn aspects of computational thinking without learning coding, but coding is essential to acquire a sound understanding and knowledge of computational thinking. The book is intended to be helpful to policy makers at the Federal and Regional level who are concerned about the need for the Russian Education system to be responsive to the demands that will be faced by children growing up today into a networked, connected world of ever-increasing digitization and online and offline collaboration. The book will also be helpful to teachers and parents and other adults who are interested in understanding more about the subject of preparing children for the 21st century from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It is also useful to explain what this book is not, even though it refers to a substantive body of rich and growing academic work on the subject, it is not intended to be an academic work that would contribute new knowledge. Most of this academic work does not appear in headlines or social media feeds of non-specialists, but quite a bit of the work is very interesting and relevant. This book has tried to translate some of this knowledge in understandable terms to policy makers and practitioners, without oversimplifying complex realities. An extensive set of references including website urls will allow the interested reader to delve deeper into any of the topics.
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author Parandekar, Suhas D.
Patarakin, Evgeny
Yayla, Gulcan
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Patarakin, Evgeny
Yayla, Gulcan
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title Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
title_short Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
title_full Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
title_fullStr Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
title_full_unstemmed Children Learning to Code : Essential for 21st Century Human Capital
title_sort children learning to code : essential for 21st century human capital
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