Coding is, apparently, the new language we all need to learn. It’s billed as essential by the likes of Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra calls coding a “core skill” that you need to learn if you want a high-paying job.
But what if this emphasis on coding is distracting us from teaching kids about other, more important things that they’ll actually need for the jobs of the future?
Marina Gorbis, executive director of the Institute for the Future, sees this obsession with coding as the equivalent of putting all our eggs into one basket.
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