{"id":15404,"date":"2024-02-09T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15404"},"modified":"2024-02-09T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:20:16","slug":"blogpost-09-24-teach-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15404","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 09\/24: Teach tech!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whatever you think of him, our Prime Minister (currently Sunak of the House of Slytherin) has decreed that school pupils must learn mathematics until the age of 18. This is an odd thing. I&#8217;m all for some elements of compulsory education, but maths until the age of 18? In the 21st Century?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about dropping mathematics, because it&#8217;s an old &#8211; even ancient &#8211; subject, and making computing\/computer science a mandatory curriculum subject until the age of 18?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are children out there who have smartphones, who don&#8217;t know how they work. Children who don&#8217;t understand the infrastructure behind &#8216;the cloud&#8217;, children who can&#8217;t comprehend networks, who don&#8217;t know what safe computing means, who don&#8217;t know about firewalls, antivirus, social data mining, spammers, data security&#8230; I could go on, but I don&#8217;t think I need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathematics is a dead skill. Computing is the skill we need to be equipping our children with. Teaching mathematics, when they all have a computer in their hands is about as much use as teaching them Latin. Quod erat demonstrandum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever you think of him, our Prime Minister (currently Sunak of the House of Slytherin) has decreed that school pupils must learn mathematics until the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}