The following question was raised in a recent Time For Kids article. Should computer science have a place in the elementary school classroom? Fifth grade students have strong opinions about that question. Here is a particularly thoughtful response by Ryann E. from Room 244.
No Coding in Elementary School by Ryann E.
I believe that elementary students should not learn how to code. We are too young. Our brains still need to develop other knowledge. We also like cursive handwriting. If you teach it to yourself incorrect (which most people will have to do because there are not 22 teachers or more), it is very difficult to relearn it. If technology takes over any more, your dead phone can not read you a very important message or multiply 34,567 by 56 then divide by 7. Coding class would be 45 minutes long so they’d probably cut music, art or recess. I do believe by 2020 there will not be enough people to fill those computing jobs, but we do not have to start in Kindergarten-Grade 6. Grade 7 and up is fine. In the higher grades, we will understand it more and code more efficiently.
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