{"id":489,"date":"2018-11-27T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/?p=489"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:59:22","slug":"why-students-should-learn-to-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/why-students-should-learn-to-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Why students should learn to code"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"489\" class=\"elementor elementor-489 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cbf4edf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cbf4edf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4ee0c7fe\" data-id=\"4ee0c7fe\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-293dfe01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"293dfe01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>At some point or another, we have all heard that coding is the language of the future&#8230;this may be a bit outdated as it is actually the language of the present and will continue to be the language of the future.&nbsp; &nbsp;Coding is everywhere.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All industries are affected by technology and jobs are becoming increasingly computerized with 60 percent of jobs today requiring computing skills.&nbsp; In the future, our current elementary students will graduate and work in an industry using technology that hasn&#8217;t even been invented yet&#8230;that is scary and exciting all at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why it is so important to build 21st century skills.&nbsp; Teaching students about coding now,&nbsp; will prepare them for the future that awaits them.&nbsp;Next week is Computer Science Education Week and students across the country are encouraged to learn an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/us\">Hour of Code<\/a>&#8221; (we will provide more detail on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/us\">Hour of Code<\/a>&#8221; including resources you can use to implement &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/us\">Hour of Code<\/a>&#8221; in your classroom in our next post&#8230;tomorrow).&nbsp; However, it is beneficial to understand how students can learn so much from coding&#8230;more than just computer science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coding is the language of creation.&nbsp; It allows you to build a website, create flashy animation, and run machines.&nbsp; &nbsp; However it provides much more than just that&#8230;it promotes skills and values we want to see in all students and can be implemented across the curriculum:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><em>Promotes complex thinking<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; Writing code takes deep, critical thinking skills.<\/li><li><strong><em>Improves academic performance<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<ul><li>students visualize abstract concepts, letting them apply math to real world situations<\/li><li>students understand the value of being concise and planning, resulting in better writing skills<\/li><li>students improve creativity through experimentation<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong><em>Builds soft skills<\/em><\/strong><ul><li>Resilience\/Persistence &#8211; it breaks the &#8220;I can&#8217;t barrier&#8221; and allows for the engineering of failure<\/li><li>Communication &#8211; coding teaches logical communication strengthening both verbal and written skills<\/li><li>Problem solving &#8211; coding takes complex problems and breaks them down into smaller parts<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong><em>Paves a path to the future<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; It prepares our students to be career ready<\/li><li><strong><em>Demands attention to detail<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; A single wrong letter can be the monkey wrench that grinds all the gears in your programming to a halt.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At some point or another, we have all heard that coding is the language of the future&#8230;this may be a bit outdated as it is actually the language of the present and will continue to be the language of the future.&nbsp; &nbsp;Coding is everywhere.&nbsp; &nbsp; All industries are affected by technology and jobs are becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teched-toolbox","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technology.dcds.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}