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Focus on Curriculum not Who’s in the Code.org Video

Code.org produced a video with a message to kids. The message can be distilled to a few basic ideas. Coding is cool. Programming isn’t hard. Programming leads to awesome jobs. More K-12 schools should teach programming. And, everyone should learn how to code. However, instead of talking about the lack of programming in K-12 curriculum, Twitter and blogs are abuzz with news about the people in the video. Mark Zuckerburg. Bill Gates. Jack Dorsey. Will.i.am. Chris Bosh.

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February 28, 2013

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