Africa-Press – Botswana. Over 1 000 senior secondary school learners will soon participate in coding.
Founder and director of Computer Science Education (CSED-Botswana), Dr Ethel Tshukudu, said in an interview that they had engaged 15 learners on computer science programming to enhance their learning process.
She said the initiative was born from her observation of United States children, who at primary level, were already familiar with the use of computers.
She then decided to bring the idea home.
Dr Tshukudu spoke to the education ministry to see how it could be localised to help Batswana children advance in technology.
The ministry agreed with the idea as it was congruent with the ideal of achieving a knowledge and skills based economy.
Dr Tshukudu said coding would enable learners to make wise decisions on which applications to use and how to use them to their advantage.
Additionally, she said a computer science education summit was scheduled for March 30-31.
It will discuss the long term goals of the computer science education programme.
She said the summit would be attended by professors from Netherlands University and an American team.
For het part, Gaborone Senior Secondary School head, Ms Lesedi Tshabangu, appreciated efforts meant to help improve pupils’ results.
She said it was pleasing that after realising government’s effort of availing computers to learners, other stakeholders were coming on board to enhance the learning processes even further, adding ‘it couldn’t get any better’.
She said the hour of coding was motivation to the learners, as well as a multi-disciplinary approach to training them, further improving their chances of doing better in examinations.
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