{"id":486,"date":"2024-03-01T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2024-03-01T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T11:11:42","slug":"discussion-points","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/education\/discussion-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2024-02-06-computer-science-course-offerings-in-high-school-spur-more-students-to-coding-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees<\/a><br \/>\nIn recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. A new study of an unusually rich dataset in Maryland found that such efforts can have a significant impact when it comes to getting more students to go on to careers in coding, and in bringing more diversity to the field.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/herambkulkarni_inspiringclassrooms-ccefinland-activity-7165955913734991872-d0aw\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Development Program &#8211; Finland<\/a><br \/>\nImmerse students in inspiring classroom environments! CCE Finland&#8217;s 360-degree solution for &#8216;Finnish School Abroad&#8217; combines physical and digital dimensions. From architecture to high-quality teacher training, we ensure an optimal learning experience<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/teach\/microbit\/teaching-microbit-with-confidence\/z28qp9q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to teach coding with confidence using the BBC micro:bit<\/a><br \/>\nPrimary school teacher Manon Watkins has been teaching children to code using the BBC micro:bit for five years at schools in Wales. She was looking into different tools that could help her pupils develop coding skills and having no prior experience in coding, she decided the BBC micro:bit might be a good tool to start with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/humanspaceflight\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ON-ORBIT Research<\/a><br \/>\nAs the world&#8217;s leading launch service provider, SpaceX enables researchers the opportunity to frequently fly critical science to orbit on the Dragon spacecraft, which has carried over 1,000 research experiments to and from low-Earth orbit and the International Space Station since 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/techcentral.co.za\/programming-skills-south-africa-needs\/240032\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The programming skills South Africa needs right now<\/a><br \/>\nPresident Cyril Ramaphosa said last week that government is working on so-called \u201cdigital nomad\u201d visas to attract highly skilled individuals to the country. Workers in the IT sector, such as programmers and software architects, are typically the target of such visas. But how is South Africa placed in terms of digital skills, and which programmers are most in demand in 2024? According to Deon Stroebel, chief commercial officer at LSD Open, an enterprise Linux and open-source software specialist, South Africa has a \u201chuge opportunity to create a very strong skills capability that could be provided to the world, similar to how organisations are using India\u2019s skills, and what\u2019s happening in the Czech Republic and Egypt\u201d. But, he said, South Africa lacks skilled people in the newer coding methodologies \u2013 and this is a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. 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