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Why women in psychology can't program
"About two months ago my brother, who works in a data science on social psychology data, asked me why his colleagues, who are women and have PhDs in psychology, cannot code"http://neuroplausible.com/programming
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Sorry if I misunderstood-very important issue. I’m worried that we’re not just failing psychology students but that we’re not equipping children generally for future jobs.
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100% agreed! It is heartening to read about the fact that a few countries agree w us. See: "The sooner we start teaching kids to code, the better. I think everybody should be taught to code in primary school and thankfully so do quite a few countries."http://neuroplausible.com/programming
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I linked to some stuff at that point in the blog.
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I followed the scratch link. I think scratch useful as easy to teach but then there is nothing afterwards. There are fabulous courses - like
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I think the heartening bit, at least for me, was the many countries saying they will teach coding in primary school.
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Our primary school would claim they do already - but two lessons of scratch in one year on ancient computers just puts children off
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FYI
@PyConUK had some amazing sessions with kids. I think they used MicroBits.
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