Charles Armstrong is just the latest high-profile figure to back proposed upgrades of the current Information and Communications Technology (ICT) teaching - supporting a campaign that has been joined by the likes of Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Google and Activision.
Addressing the London Policy Conference earlier this month, Armstrong insisted that children should be given at least the “opportunity” to code.
He said: “ICT in schools has become simply an exercise teaching how to use mainstream software.
“Computer programming is like music and every child will benefit in some way from being taught the basics at an early age.”
His comments come after two of the computer gaming industry’s leaders – Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope - penned a report calling for the UK to transform itself into the “world’s leading talent hub for the video games and visual effects industries” and include computer science in the national curriculum.
A report from the schools inspectorate Ofsted published this week states that ICT teaching in two thirds of English secondary schools was sub-standard and required serious improvement.
* Armstrong is the co-founder of Trampoline Systems who have have produced ‘Tech City Map’ which is a project analysing the East London technology ecosystem that was launched by David Cameron last month.
by : LEE PRICE
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fun/gaming/4085287/PC-programming-is-new-Latin.html
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