{"id":13292,"date":"2015-01-22T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:08:55","slug":"future-of-work-why-teaching-everyone-to-code-is-delusional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/future-of-work-why-teaching-everyone-to-code-is-delusional","title":{"rendered":"Future of Work: Why Teaching Everyone to Code Is Delusional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Nathaniel Calhoun\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/ncalhoun\/\" rel=\"author\">Nathaniel Calhoun<\/a> \u2013Singularity Hub<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">Since 2005, I\u2019ve been grappling with the issue of what to teach young people. I\u2019ve written curricula for junior high students in the US, for a UNICEF program reaching students in a dozen countries, and now, for East African young people as they become financially literate and business savvy.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">Through the years, I\u2019ve watched program directors demand young people focus on foolish content because it lined up with something trending in the public discourse\u2014units on climate change; modules about using social media to share stories; lessons on agricultural policy; and so forth.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\">What have I learned? The attention of a young person is tremendously valuable. We should stop teaching them whatever makes us feel good and get honest about the next fifteen years.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/12\/28\/future-of-work-part-ii-why-teaching-everyone-to-code-is-delusional\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nathaniel Calhoun \u2013Singularity Hub Since 2005, I\u2019ve been grappling with the issue of what to teach young people. I\u2019ve written curricula for junior high students in the US, for a UNICEF program reaching students in a dozen countries, and now, for East African young people as they become financially literate and business savvy. Through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1470,1528,32,20,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-disruptive-technology","category-education","category-futurism","category-human-trajectories","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46648,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13292\/revisions\/46648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}