5 Reasons Your Kid (And You) Should Develop Coding Literacy
5 Reasons Your Kid (And You) Should Develop Coding Literacy
Computers are and will be increasingly everywhere. Our life already revolves around computers. They are everywhere, not just in the forms of laptops and mobile phones we are used to thinking of as computers. The Internet of Everything (IoE) will accelerate this trend. More products and services will have technology embedded in them and data will be collected, transferred, analyzed and used for multitude of purposes.
Computers themselves are pretty stupid. Computers as such aren’t that clever. They need commands from humans in order to function. Even though computers are getting more intelligent all the time, they are still unable to operate without humans – and this is likely to be the case in the future too. For this, we need coders.
Computers have no understanding of ethics. Technology gets blamed for a lot, but technology itself isn’t good or bad. It simply has no understanding of ethics. Yet computers and the data they collect dictate our lives and societies more and more. This means coding is getting tangled with social sciences – and all of us should have a basic understanding of it.
Coding opens doors. Along with everything explained above, coding – or at least a basic understanding of it – will be necessary for people in the future as employees, entrepreneurs or simply as citizens. Without this understanding our capacity to function in the society will be considerably reduced.
Coding is fun. Coding, as any other new skill, can first feel difficult, but with the right supervision the fun in it will soon emerge. Coding can be part of a school curriculum, after-school activity or it can be a hobby like anything else.
This blog was written together with Kodarit. Kodarit is Finland’s largest programming school offering courses for children and adults. For more information and opportunity please visit https://kodarit.fi/en/front-page/.
