Children must be taught how to think, not what to think

Coding is an emerging new-age skill that builds technical flair in students. Introduction of coding or precoding at an early age develops the problem-solving and cognitive domain of the human brain, which is valuable for success in the digital world in the future.

Four & Five years old can learn the foundations of coding and computer commands before they can even write or spell words. Keeping this in mind, a workshop was organized for Early Years teachers to understand the programming language through different activities and play-way method. The focus of the discussion was about teaching children computational thinking which helps to understand what to do with data instead of just collecting data.

The coding skills that an early year child can develop are– sequencing, spotting & creating patterns, understand algorithms, looping, debugging, using if-then conditionals & then code, etc.

It was an interactive session where every teacher shared different methods and techniques that can be used to enhance these coding skills in the early years through play-way method.