Teaching computer code at school

TL;DR

This paper discusses the renewed importance and debate over teaching computer programming in schools, emphasizing its potential to transform education and foster digital humanism.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the historical and current debates on coding education, highlighting the multifaceted arguments and the societal implications involved.

Findings

Growing consensus on the importance of coding in education

Debates encompass technical, educational, cultural, and psychological aspects

Potential for profound transformation in future learning models

Abstract

In today's education systems, there is a deep concern about the importance of teaching code and computer programming in schools. Moving digital learning from a simple use of tools to understanding the processes of the internal functioning of these tools is an old / new debate originated with the digital laboratories of the 1960. Today, it is emerging again under impulse of the large - scale public sphere digitalization and the new constructivist education theories. Teachers and educators discuss not only the viability of code teaching in the classroom, but also the intellectual and cognitive advantages for students. The debate thus takes several orientations and is resourced in the entanglement of arguments and interpretations of any order, technical, educational, cultural, cognitive and psychological. However, that phenomenon which undoubtedly augurs for a profound transformation in the future models of learning and teaching , is predicting a new and almost congenital digital humanism