{"id":65673,"date":"2022-11-07T00:48:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=65673"},"modified":"2022-11-07T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:48:26","slug":"computer-science-in-the-classroom-is-the-code-still-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/computer-science-in-the-classroom-is-the-code-still-on-the-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science in the classroom: is the code still on the agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWith the democratization of computing in the early 1980s, the question of teaching it at school came up regularly.\u00a0The first mention of\u00a0IT in school curricula<\/a>\u00a0dates from 1985, with the aim of making CM1 and CM2 students understand its impact on society and its basic principles.\u00a0This is how the\u00a0LOGO language<\/a>\u00a0, developed at MIT, appeared in schools to introduce children to programming through play.<\/p>\n

But the new programs, initiated in 1995 no longer integrate this learning of computer design and focus more on technologies from the user’s point of view, with the discovery of office tools and the Internet, skills which are elsewhere at the heart of\u00a0B2I certification<\/a>\u00a0, a patent aimed at certifying middle school students’ mastery of multimedia tools.<\/p>\n

From 2013,\u00a0the Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0pleaded for a teaching of computer science from primary to high school, but it will be necessary to wait until the start of the 2014 school year for\u00a0introductory courses in code to<\/a>\u00a0be offered again at school, while remaining optional. and provided during extracurricular time.\u00a0And it was finally at the start of the 2016 school year that these lessons were integrated into the programs, from CM1 to the baccalaureate, and follow the logic set out in the report of the Academy of Sciences in 2013, with an “awareness” phase. in primary, an \u201cevolution towards autonomy\u201d in college and an \u201cimprovement\u201d in high school.<\/p>\n

Programming logic<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Although not appearing as such in the curricula, certain skills in the CE1 and CE2 mathematics curriculum provide an introduction to computer logic.\u00a0These are, for example,\u00a0exercises requiring the coding<\/a>\u00a0of movements in a grid.<\/p>\n

From CM1 to sixth, computer science lessons are found in two components of the official program.\u00a0In \u201cScience and technology\u201d lessons, students learn to \u201cuse digital tools to communicate results, process data, simulate phenomena, represent technical objects and identify reliable sources of information\u201d.\u00a0Here we find the \u201cuse\u201d oriented lessons that existed in the previous programs.\u00a0The new programs integrate in the \u201cMathematics\u201d part the resolution of problems by using multiple data or by building an approach requiring several stages.\u00a0This teaching, which can be done with or without a computer, lays the groundwork for programming logic and represents an introduction to computer science.<\/p>\n