Interview with Rachel Swidenbank
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Codecademy is a free interactive platform partnered with more than 1,000 schools to prepare teachers for the UK curriculum change that makes programming for 5–14 year olds mandatory; the team ships lesson plans, teacher training and a pupil tracker that lets teachers monitor student progress across languages in-class for free. Cited projections: a 300,000 digital-skills gap in London and 1.4 million in the US by 2020, framing urgent demand for computational thinking.
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- 0:00Introduction to Codecademy
- 1:39Women in programming
- 3:06Addressing the skills gap
- 4:02Future of education
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