All Students Should Have The Right To Learn How To Program

My title says it all I think students should have the right to learn how to program. From a recent census only about 10% of all public school students have the right to learn how to program, and this is something that even the students can change from a free tool kit offered by code.org. I filled out the email address just so I could review the lesson plan and it is really well thought out. Now you can use this information and start a club or after school program for it. From what I can tell there are 10 full weeks worth of work that can be completed from their website. Now this is something that I encourage people to do because everything on your computer is code even the operating system on the computer is coded. Now the sad truth is there are not enough coders and engineers that can fill all of the jobs that are available so that lead me to bring up our current title.

What Can I Do As An Educator?

If you are a teacher at the school then you can convince your students to start and after school program so they can choose whether or not they want to learn. You can get their attention by showing them what they could learn. Show them something that will want them to form goals such as a simple game or a website. Then try to convince them by telling them that it is an easy field to get into and that there are a lot of high paying jobs for coders and engineers. You can also go to http://www.code.org/teach to get the necessary teaching materials for an after school club. You will also need to encourage them to bring their friends along because learning how to code takes a lot of time and it is a lot more fun when collaborating with their friends.

What Can I Do As A Student?

If you are a student then you can go to your school's office and ask them what it would take to start up a club. If they give you the necessary items then you will need to find a teacher. The ones that are most likely to do it are your computer, engineering, math teachers because it is something that will probably spark their interest the most. Then you will need to give them this site to where they can get the materials to start up the program http://www.code.org/teach   . Then you will need to get as many of your friends to sign up and show them what it is they can create this will spark their interest, Also let them know that it is more fun if they can work with their friends. How you do this is up to you, but that can be an affiliate program if you would.

Why Should I Do This?

There are a lot of cool things that you can do with these skills but what you are looking to here is you can make money with it.programming is actually one of the most in demand fields currently. Also these skills can help you get jobs and get into colleges because not a lot of kids know how to program. This can give you a huge advantage to getting into a job in the field. Because if you know more languages then someone else then you have learned more then them at that can equate to more money.