ICT Policy
With a policy decision on ICT expected, Tony Parkin sounds out academics at the London Knowledge Lab
“You wait 30 years for someone to listen to your ideas and then, suddenly, 100 come along at once!” Richard Noss, of the London Knowledge Lab, was welcoming the large and eclectic group attending his organisation's recent debate on computational thinking and computer science, “Time to Reload: Computational Thinking and Computer Science in Schools".
Quoting from one of Seymour Papert’s early papers, “Teaching Children Thinking”, Richard Noss warned in the opening session that many of these ideas were not new, and that in the rush to generate the programmers of the new economy we should not forget that being able to program was a fundamental right for every learner.
