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25/07/2016
Curriculum Advisers Urged To Find Ways To Integrate Coding Into Primary Education
The Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton, has called on the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment to consider ways of integrating coding into the primary curriculum.
It is understood that under the Programme for Partnership, the government has committed to modernise the education system and evolve the curriculum to focus on the future needs, abilities and capacity of students.
Welcoming what he called the Minister's 'far-sighted request', Ireland's Digital Champion, David Puttnam, said that Ireland needs to "become significantly more imaginative in the way we educate" children.
He said: "We must actively embrace digital technologies in learning at every level and equip young people with the key enabling skills for the future; those same skills that will enable them to fulfil their full potential in a digital world.
"Coding is an international language and is increasingly becoming part and parcel of children's lives. The ability to code and the ability to understand it will make them that much more employable in the future."
(MH/LM)
It is understood that under the Programme for Partnership, the government has committed to modernise the education system and evolve the curriculum to focus on the future needs, abilities and capacity of students.
Welcoming what he called the Minister's 'far-sighted request', Ireland's Digital Champion, David Puttnam, said that Ireland needs to "become significantly more imaginative in the way we educate" children.
He said: "We must actively embrace digital technologies in learning at every level and equip young people with the key enabling skills for the future; those same skills that will enable them to fulfil their full potential in a digital world.
"Coding is an international language and is increasingly becoming part and parcel of children's lives. The ability to code and the ability to understand it will make them that much more employable in the future."
(MH/LM)
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