Could it be that the Teach our kids to code e-petition is the smallest successful e-petition in UK politics? It would certainly seem so, after this week’s news that Michael Gove wants to replace the current ICT school curriculum with a Computer Science programme. I do not often (ever?) agree with the Education Secretary, but today’s announcement is definitely a step in the right direction.
Read more at ORGZine.
I don’t know about you, but I have my alarm set up for tomorrow morning’s RaspberryPi (www.raspberrypi.org)launch and I want to get my hand on one of those $35 ≈ £22 little embedded linux computers. I really hope the UK (and any other) government picks up on the RPI foundation’s idea and supplies these to schools where kids can play around and even buy one to fool around with after class. Sure is cheaper than the new (and completely useless as a teaching tool) iPhone.