{"id":66610,"date":"2016-01-18T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=66610"},"modified":"2016-01-18T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:01:21","slug":"computing-coding-curriculum-bc-tech-strategy","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/computing-coding-curriculum-bc-tech-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Computer Coding Added to School Curriculum as Part of New BC Tech Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 22px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1563\/24094601479_a87d1b3e4f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"209\" \/>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/bctechsummit.ca\" target=\"_blank\">at the BC Tech Summit<\/a>, the Premier of British Columbia announced that computer coding will be added to the province&#8217;s school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of Christy Clark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bctechstrategy.gov.bc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">#BCTechStrategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>Last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/bc-government-vc-fund-tech-sector-2015-12-08\" target=\"_blank\">a $100 million venture capital fund was launched<\/a> as part of the strategy.<\/p>\n<p>BC becomes the second province in Canada to make this move; last year Nova Scotia announced computer coding this fall. Other countries, such as Britain and Australia, are also working to implement it.<\/p>\n<p>According to Clark, BC&#8217;s new curriculum will affect every school grade, including kindergarten. By middle school students will be learning basic coding, with specializations beginning in high school.<\/p>\n<p>The implementation will take three years.<\/p>\n<p>The move, says Clark, aims to address a supply and demand issue in Canada&#8217;s digital economy. Canada has long been hindered by a skills and talent shortage in technology-related sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Also a part of BC Tech Summit is Techfest by Techvibes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/speaker-roster-for-tech-fest-vancouver-announced-2016-01-13\" target=\"_blank\">which takes place tomorrow evening<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the BC Tech Summit, the Premier of British Columbia announced that computer coding will be added to the province&#8217;s school curriculum. The move is part of Christy Clark&#8217;s #BCTechStrategy. Last month, a $100 million venture capital fund was launched as part of the strategy. BC becomes the second province in Canada to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":66612,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-66610","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/66610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66610"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=66610"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=66610"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=66610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}