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In my opinion coding is important for our students as long as it helps them learn to learn and acquire new skills (autonomy - logic skills - entrepreneurship - cooperation ...). in my country we are stil too farway from European standards, I guess!!

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I totally agree with Neelie Kroes. It should be taught in both levels of education.

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Coding is very important and I agree with Neelie. But it my country only some students knows coding, very well, because it is difficult for them.

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Literacy is very important but I do not believe that digital literacy is only in coding.I think coding should be taught in primary schools mostly through gaming, just for students to know very basic stuff and to understand just elementary concepts.

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I think it is more appropriate saying "coding is another side of literacy". in Italy not all schools teach coding, in my school, for example, there aren't any coding lessons given, but I think it should be integrated in curricular activities since it helps students improve their ability of organizing.

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I think students of tomorrow will have to do more with coding than students and teachers of today. In Russia students in secondary school have IT lessons, but not in primary school.

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it's a literacy coding for future lessons

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We participate in Europe Code Week. My class was in the program "studio.code.org" and began using scratch.

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Not common, at least not yet. Useful indeed for the elder students. Personally I find it extremely difficult..

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I think coding would be very useful for the students.

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Creo que en españa estamos un poco retrasados en este tema de lenguaje digital.

A los jóvenes les gusta y creo que es necesario para seguir avanzando en la tecnología, tan rápidaa....

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I think coding will be a necessary skill in the future, but nowadays in my country it is not a common skill. The great part of italian students doesn’t study coding at school: coding is a discipline just in few schools in Italy.

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It is growing more and more, we have code ambassadors that also spread the word about coding and how important it is. Yes, it's a new literacy.

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Is it a 'new literacy' - indeed it is - is it tought - well i some places - not everywhere and unfortunately not to every kid and not at the level I would expect. A lot of people that the spreadsheet is just a tool for accountants. For some the ICT starts and ends with the ability of the kid to switch on and switch off the computer - terrible.

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I do agree with Mrs. Kroes. I am veryinterested in coding, esspecially for girls, and I will introduce this concept on a regional level next year.

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When it comes to programming, I agree that 'Coding is the new Literacy' for young generation and it should be taught by ICT teachers in secondary schools. It is not yet taught unless they do A levels to enter university when they are taught basic variables via a coined language to introduce basic norms of coding.

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We do not use coding inour school. We do not allow to students to use tablets, smartphones. We only have a ICT lab.I did found tools here to help my students at etwinning projects.

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I think coding is important because students understand what's under everything and how it can work properly. they also understand that it's an hard work to make something we think is normal and we usually use, like an app on our smartphone!

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I have no experience with coding, but I think it may be a useful skill for both students and teachers.

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I agree with Neelie Kroes ("Coding is the new literacy".I think it's quite important for students to Know coding today because, like we hear in the video, if you kow it, you'll be able to fix sth, change sth,invent sth... and that's how our students will probably leave their marks on the world.In my country, many students are already learning coding. I think it should go on being taught in the ICT subject.

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I think coding should be taught at schools. Unfortunately in my country now have started the first steps in coding.

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I think programming is very important, not only because of what it enables you to make, but also because when you know how to code, you understand more of how tools / tech work.

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In my school the primary school students will learn coding this year. It is a national pilot program that started this year in some schools. For students to learn the coding it has to be part of the curriculum.

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I agree with the above declaration, that “coding is the new literacy”. Coding is very important for students, because helps them improve different skills (e.g. creativity, computational thinking, problem solving, imagination).  Should be taught in primary and secondary schools, so that students can be initiated to coding at early age. In my country, unfortunately coding is optional and only for those students that interested to continue their studies in the IT field.

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Code literacy is truly a 21st century skill. Instead of just using computers, we can try to learn how to program them. With the help of all resources available coding can be taught even in primary school. In order to make it happen in my country, coding should be part of the curriculum.

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I think that is important for pupils to learn coding but in higher secondary education... I think it is better to be taught in the ICT lesson, if there is one in the curriculum. In my opinion it is difficult for the teachers to be taught across all subjects....

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As far as my experience is concerned , only ICT teachers (and their students in certain vocational schools) are into Coding. I agree with the statement but I doubt I will ever be able to use coding in one of my lessons.

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Coding is an important to skill to acquire but teachers are not prepared to teach it and some of them don't think that it is important, so I think the way to drive is very long :(

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Yes I agree with Kroes statements and think "Coding is the new literacy".

There is not much coding in our school in Iceland but it is increasing last 2 years.

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Learning to code helps us to make sense of how things work, explore ideas and make things, for both work and play. What’s more it helps us to unleash our creativity and work collaboratively with wonderful people both near us and all over the world.
But in my school my collegs don't know what does it meen cooding for the future of our chidren. And who know haven't skill to improve coding.

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Coding is a very important  knowledge from now on, a digital skill of a great significance in the future works. A great variety of tools has been developed to approach students, in particular in primary schools, to coding, showing coding as a pleasant game… (thanks Ollie Bray for the great view of these instruments!); this approach can spread really a new literacy. In secondary schools, however, coding can be seen as a vocational  study.

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Yes, I agree with this statement because many jobs nowadays demand this knowledge. I am also convinced that basic programming should be introduced to primary school learners. Because I teach English, this is not really where I could introduce programming to my students

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In the beginning it wasn t so clear to me why coding was so important. How creating a game could help students and prepare them better for the future? This was my question to myself. After some courses and seminars I realized that it s maybe one of the most important and necessary skills to have, because it helps you to learn that everything must be done step by step and after a carefull thinking, they learn to analyse, to be patient, to obey to the rules.

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I think that coding is very important skill in future, but most of our schools and teachers are not ready for teaching coding in primary school. Starting from this school year there is new pilot-project in some schools.  Schools will be able to choose to integrate the teaching of basic computing skills and also coding in almost all subjects from Grade 1 till Grade 3, but it will not be compulsory.

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Yes, since it seems to me that the digital divide will be even stronger in the next years.

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I think that Coding cuold be a very important subject to teach and it can be introduced from primary school.

In fact in our "Indicazioni nazionali" in the tecnology part it is said that "when possible" you can introduce simple language of coding... but teachers are not prepared for this.

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I believe that coding should be introduced to primary and secondary education and that teachers should follow training courses

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At the moment coding is not yet part of our curriculum. I think that it should since it engages and motivates students to be creative.   eLearning support teachers are trying to encourage teachers to implement coding in the primary years through workshops on Lego WeDo and Angry birds coding website. I've tried some coding with my students last year and they enjoyed it.

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Coding is the new literacy!
Absolutely!
Coding skills are strongly relating to the communication skills (you should express yourself as accurate, simple and clear, as it possible), to project managment (you should imagin far a way the result of work and every litle step to achieve it during the way, to think critical (what was wrong) and in a constructive way (how to fix the bug? how to use the error) as well as in creative way.

There are so many other benefits, so I'm not able to list all of them...

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I believe learning to code is an essential skill which should be taught from primary school. Unfortunately, in Greece, coding is not taught in primary schools but only in secondary schools and for those students who specialize in computing. It should be included in the general curriculum of both primary and secondary education.

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I disagree with the statement. I think it's nos worth a comparison as I didn't know anything about coding until now and I could work and live perfectly in our community.

Anyway, if you learn how to code you can have a completely different approach to technology, you pass from a passive receptor to a creator, from being just a consumer to become a productor and that's a key change of paradigma.

As far as I know this it not included in Spanish curriculum. Only some really involved teachers include coding in their lessons.

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I have no experience of coding but I do think it’s a fundamental skill and it will become more and more important in the near future. Coding should be introduced from primary school, I’m quite sure kids would learn quickly and have fun at the same time. Probably teaching coding across all subjects would be very useful and effective as it is for other digital skills or other languages, English language for example. Proper training and familiarization are necessary for teachers and school administrators.

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Our children are not taught that many things about coding, because the school structure does not focus that much on technology, but it should be more appreciated, though.

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In my school there is no wifi; pc are very old and technology is not so used in learning. But students use it, not often for education. I think it could be powerful to use coding and technology also to enter in younger's world and stimulate them.

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I teach English in a primary school, none of the colleagues at my school or English teachers I know in secondary or high schools are ready to include coding into their teaching, because they don't know what it is. Neither do I. At the moment Neelie Kroes' thought seems like a quote from a science fiction book, but I'm sure in 10 years it will be a reality and even a must. The problem is how to cope with the fast speed of technology growth for those who hoped to retire in a year or two and feel uncomfortable and insecure with simpler digital skills.

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In my opinion in Italy we are not ready (with some exceptions) to teach coding in primary and secondary school...in my middle school we have just started to talk about it but in the case of me and many other teachers we are not able to! Another reason for following this course...I have to improve and I think coding is very important.

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I agree with Neelie Kroes so the first thing all European ministries have to do, is to adopt the idea of teaching code not just in secondary but also in primary level because in many countries students have not been taught coding before ninth grade. i believe that coding will not be very easily embedded in other subjects especially those which are far away from ict, because teachers encounter difficulties with coding.

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I personally believe that learning programming is the same as putting grease the machine. In high schools of our country programming is a little piece of the curriculum. Programming is taught in high schools and in particular only students who choose ΙΤ universities.

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The coding is one of the literacy necessary for the citizens of the future. The goal is helping students to develop fondamental skills as autonomy, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, ability to work in team by coding.
The problem is that, in Italy, schools are not ready to teach well English at primary school and also (sometimes) in middle school, so I don't image something about coding at this levels (primary and middle school).

The process is not impossible, but really slow...

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We use coing in my class for 2 years. And I belive that my students are thinking differently after coding. I hope ıt will be a part of our curriculum too

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I think coding is an important part of our lives today. And to know something about coding is to know in some ways how our world works today. I am not sure if I think coding should be across all subjects, but certainly it should be a part of the curriculum of primary school

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I think coding is about innovation and creativity. Students should learn how are thing made. I like the quote: "internet of things." In order to understand and develop skills in the XXI Century, coding is a new literacy, but not the only one. In my experience, students love to create and to show they creations. Let's encourage them and give them the tools to discover and create. This is the beginning of a new citizenship and the understanding of democracy.

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I think coding is something the school needs to take in to their teaching. Not all children needs to become programmers but they need to understand their surroundings and how everything is connected. It is a knowledge that will help them in every subject but most of all it will make them grow up to become democratic citizens and it will give them choices of how to create their own future.

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For me Coding is not a new literacy; in the past we’ve used various languages like Logo, Html, also Basic. The coding is one of the literacy necessary for the citizens of the future. We should not educate ‘good programmers’ but help students to develop fundamental skills for themselves as an individual: autonomy, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, ability to work in teams, willingness to learn from error, etc. One of the points of law on Good School indicates: Digital skills: coding and computational thinking in Primary school and plan "Digital Makers" in the secondary.

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I have used with my students computational language

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In this week it's easy speaking about Coding!

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I agree.

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Coding is great for students, I've been using Kodu and Scratch with my ICT students and it allows them to develop not only programming skills but also to improve math thinking and critical thinking while trying to solve the problem of creating a game.

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I tottaly agree with the statement. And I would like to add "Digital and Coding are the new literacy" and should be tought in primary and secondary school. Our world is changing so fast...For example take in mind how telephones looked & worked 40-50 years ago and how they look and what they can do today! I had to put a tremendous offer to understand and use my mobile at the beginning. If we don't literate them it will be like holding them back and it would also mean that they won't have the neccessary skills for the jobs of the future.

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As yet there is no official teaching of coding in the curriculum, except for students that take Computer Studies in higher secondary schools. However, our eLearning Departiment is encouraging the development of this skill through eLearning Support Teachers.

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In Italy there is a specific field of study at the technological high schools where students learn different programming languages.

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We don't have to do with coding that much in our countrym, but I consider that it should be more appreciated.

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I agree, coding today is very important for students because they use different ways to communicate.

I partecipated at an hour for cide last years and a few days ago at Eu code week

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I agree with the statement; it is important to teach children how to do it as soon as
possible and my motto is “It’s never too early to learn”! Also, for the last
twenty years I’ve been teaching and trying to minimize the negative
consequences of traditional schooling with cross-curricular, topic-based and project-based learning. Digital literacy is an important segment of competences
nowadays.

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I think learning code will be important in the future but see it as something which will improve from the junior stages upward.  Even if we start in secondary - I don't think it will be as good.  I think staff engagement may prove to be an issue also

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I am not sure if coding is very popular in Germany. It is popular on European and international teacher platforms but as I am not teaching Maths or ICT I have just skipped it. It could be interesting for teaching foreign languages as the code words are short and easy to understand as they are connected with an instant action. The more I think about it, the more interesting and useful it seems to be as it shows an authentic learning environment.

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I've been aware about coding just last year, across some MOOCS and webinars on teacher platforms, and I'm very interested on it, not only because I teach Maths but also because I think that logic is essential to everyday life of children and adults. It keeps children in the path, teaching them how to organize their thoughts and actions.

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digital literacy is to be learned by everyone who wants to keep up with the times. the kids are born into a world surrounded by all these programmes. so ıt is necessary to learn and ıt should be taught at schools.

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Coding is not widely spread in our schools but there are teachers who teach students to code. I think that teachers should be educated first but I'm afraid that average teacher isn't on a very high level with ICT competences. However, I'd like to see coding is taught on primary level and would like to learn more about it. This video gave me some ideas how to improve my own coding skills.

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Coding is not a priority in my school, in french schools neither. For me, it is completely new. I've tried Scratch but i don't know how to teach coding.

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Code language is completely new for me, but as I know, it's getting more and more popular in Poland - there's a national programme called "Koduj z klasą" (Code with the class) - it uses Scratch, Kodu, Python, Java. I'm really happy I'm going to know more about coding, for sure in today's world it should be taught on every level of education according to the needs.

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I think it would be useful to teach coding,even on Primary level, but first teachers need to learn it! Coding is taught in ICT lessons but not in other lessons for now.

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In Italy "Coding" isn't reality in schools, but it  will be necessary to start. I think that the use of coding will increase digital skills and  widen both  logical and maths skills.

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I agree with Neelie Kroes, because coding could be a great tool to motivate students and create something near to their lifestyle. I think the students in my school would be very interested in learning coding, but sometimes some teachers do not switch on the LIM

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What I consider exciting or discouraging it is how fast time is running. Post-modern society requires far too many changes that school seems not to be able to satisfy, not all of them at least. How can not I hold coding is as important as math or logic are? The problem is who is able to teach very well it? IN Italy our primary school does not succeed in teaching English efficiently, so I can hardly imagine it may teach coding. Then, the main question is not if coding worth being thought, because it absolutely is, but how we can train good teacher in coding so they could teach it since the primary school.
What I consider discouraging it is how fast time is running. POst modern society requires far too many changes that school seems not to be able to satisfy. How can not I hold coding is as important as math or logic.? The problem is who is able to teach very well it? IN Italy our primary school does not succede in teachemg English, so I can hadlry imagine it could teach coding . The main question is not if coding worth being tought, but how we can train good teacher in coding since the primary school.

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It´s important but first teachers need to know to :-)

At my scholl we are beginning with a project about about codding at primary school :-)

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I agree with Neelie Kroes. Codding is important for students today, because they are learn in a different way. It should be taught in primary school age, but not across all subjects.

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I would agree. I think it's really important that students are not only consumers of digital products but they are also able to create. There is going to be a divide between those who are able to code (create) and those who can only consume.

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Coding is important part of ICT skill but in our ICT curriculum isnt enought time for it,

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In Finland the coding is part of the new curriculum in the basic education which comes into force next year. I am a complete novice so I can not say how important coding is for an ordinary people, but interesting it is, indeed,

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Coding is the international language that will enable people to communicate, no matter where they come from and what language they Speak. it sound Challenging, isn't it?

ENCODE YOUR IDEAS & SHARE

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I think that the coding is very important and interesting. I started to learn Scratch

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As some of the portuguese colleagues already stated
here, this year there´s a national project to implement Coding in primary schools (4th graders); not all the schools will be able to do it this year but we are in the right direction, I think.

I have a six year old son and he has one computer with bad internet connection in his school. Me and my
husband think that this skill is so important that we are starting introducing Coding at home using Scratch Junior.

I believe that coding is as important as knowing other languages or subjects and should be a cross-curriculum subject in all schools.

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I strongly believe that coding should be included into school curriculum.

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Coding should be taught in schools because it encourages analytical thinking. I always involve my upper primary students with coding

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Yes, it is new literacy. But it seems that there are plenty of them who doesn't think so. There are also "CS" teachers that prefere to teach usage of tools. In Slovenian primary and secondary schools there is no computing in curricullum that is obligatory. I hope it will change something, especialy now when a lot of countries include computing in their curiculums.

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I thing to know how working with code is an essential tool for everybody, like use a pen, a computer, a programm.

Our students will be better workers is they can use all tools for developing their abilities on any field of work.

It is another basic language that is neccesary they obtain in the school nowadays.

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Coding is important, but I am not sure that Iwould call it a new literacy. Pupils should be exposed to it, but I wonder whether you can expect to get all pupils (and teachers)to understand and / or use coding. I think, however, that if there is one thing that should be taught is HTML, as that is an important language. With the "what you see is what you get" approach to building sites so popular now, who knows? Maybe this question of coding is not a problem in the future.

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YES  The coding is undoubtedly the new literature. The world is constantly changing in terms of cultural, social, historical. It is a changing world in a hurry, for this we must help young people to acquire new skills that enable them to better manage the changes that occur every day around them. Working with the coding means to develop and enhance the computational thinking and problem solving. The coding is the best way to acquire these skills. In primary school activityis feasible and it can be managed in an interdisciplinary way. With my pupils I worked on coding last year using the activities and suggestions from ministerial website "program in the future." What matters use the coding? The coding is trasversal: because you have to use your own mother tongue and the language community, because you have to work with the concepts and topological space, because you have to use logic to solve problems, because you have to learn how to confront and work in teams....coding is the future!

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I agree with Neelie Kroes, it's new. I think it should be introduced gradually with right resources in early years across all subjects. Like literacy :)

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I agree with Neelie. Codding is a new literacy and

schools 's mission is to help students develop these competencies which will not be easy if teachers do not develop themselves. Perhaps this is still a difficult reality for most teachers ...

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I believe that more you know on how does the machine works better it is. Thinking about it. Coding has a place in school.  But which place is it? I probably will found out further on this module. In Quebec we don't even talk about it.

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I think coding is the literacy of the 21st century. In my oppinion, it should be taught very early. I love the idea of coding and I want to try it with my students.

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I agree with Neelie Kroes declaration that coding is the new literacy.  I think all students should have basic coding skills even if they will not pursue a coding career when they finish their studies.  Coding engages and motivates learners to solve problems, think about different options that will lead to the right solution, think in a critical manner to solve problems and re-organise their thoughts.  In my country coding is currently given importance in all levels given the benefits students stand to gain when engaged in higher order thinking skills.

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I strongly agree. Thinking like a computer scientist is important to decipher today's digital tools. Italy is not actively introducing coding in teaching, which I think is unfortunate.

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It’s difficult in primary school but it’s not impossible. All depends on skills of kids. It’s important to have facilities and a qualified teacher.

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I think Neelie Kroes are right. We live in a digital age and our students are digital. We must help them in this process even at primary school. The code should be taught from an early age. We must remember, however, that it remains a useful tool for all in life and work, but it does not replace the man.

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Coding in my country is very important. But only some students knows coding, very well, because it is difficult for them.

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I have no experience at coding, but I do agree it should be taught in secondary education. In my country it is only taught in computer classes.