by All Points West, CBC
An elementary school in Courtenay, B.C. is teaching kids computer programming code by using a free online learning tool. “I’d love to see every teacher doing it,” said Kyle Timms, the principal at Courtenay Elementary School. In 2013, U.K. schools made it mandatory to teach coding to children as young as 5 years old. The new course is an effort to update the country’s computer science curriculum and fill job skills gaps in the growing technology sector. Coding is not currently in the B.C. curriculum, but a new curriculum is in development.
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