Cathy Davidson on why all students should be web literate

21st Century Skills

Cathy Davidson on why all students should be web literate

Aug 9, 2012

BEYOND 1's AND 0's: Cathy Davidson and Mark Surman explain why web literacy should be part of every child's education--and not just to create armies of programmers to design websites and manage databases. Money quote: "... if web literacy, including web programming, was adopted by every school as a fourth basic literacy, kids would not only learn how to code, they would learn about interactivity, collaboration, the melding of the artistic and the scientific, creativity, and precision."

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