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Berners-Lee Calls For Computer Science Education at a Younger Age
Computer science is "very different from the IT class, and I think making that distinction very clear and maybe early on in schools is very important," Tim Berners-Lee told the World Economic Forum.
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Computer science should be taught to children at a younger age, said World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee at the recent World Economic Forum. He says technology education in schools currently focuses more on showing students how to use Microsoft Word rather than providing them with instruction on coding.
"It's very important in education with this computer science, which is understanding the philosophy of computer and the mathematics of computing, and learning to really build stuff, it's very different from the IT class, and I think making that distinction very clear and maybe early on in schools is very important," Berners-Lee says.
Computer science education would enable young students to gain a better understanding of how computers function and how to code applications. Berners-Lee notes that millions use Twitter and Facebook, but few understand why the services work the way they do. The mentality for many about computers, he says, is to ask a parent to buy new devices when something goes wrong, rather than understanding what went wrong and fixing it.
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