Why Coding Is Important !!!

Why Coding

Computer programming jobs may be declining, but coding is becoming the most in-demand skill across industries.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that employment specifically for computer programmers will decline 8% to 302,200 positions over the next decade as businesses outsource projects to less expensive contract workers overseas.

So as a parent or teacher you might be asking your self if all this is true why don’t more schools teach coding to their students. The answer is simple and some times hard to hear. In some cases teachers don’t want to teach coding because its something new and something that many teachers have never taught or never had to teach before.

Some school still only give time to subjects that are mandated or that are teaching to the test and I feel that this needs to change.

Coding and the arts are two of the most popular subjects but are taught in a small % of schools but this number is growing every year with mandates coming down to teach some type of coding.

I was recently in Arkansas talking to teachers about Codemoji and other platforms that they can use to teach coding to their students. Many of the teachers that I talked to were worried about teaching programming and were looking for solutions. While I was there I also found out that only about 20 teachers out of all the teachers that support about 300,000 students were certified computer sciences teachers.

The more I travel around the country talking to educators about coding and the challenges they face as teachers the more I learn that its not always easy to teach to the future when the state tests are designed for the curriculum of yesterday.

I think as a teacher or parent what you can take away from this is simple coding is coming and your children and students need to be prepared for the future.

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