Five Benefits of Teaching Coding Skills to Very Young Students

Update: 2014-03-31

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Our guest today is accomplishing some pretty amazing things with very young students and computer programming. He's part of a growing cadre of teachers who believe that coding should be core subject.

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Bjørn S. Erga is from Osio, Norway. A Master in literature - subject: Science fiction, teacher and tech-prophet, gamernerd and a lover of unraveling the Matrix - which I call real life. Also co-founded the think tank and collective blog PedSmia.

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Five Benefits of Teaching Coding Skills to Very Young Students

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Five Benefits of Teaching Coding Skills to Very Young Students