Jim StormdancerOnly 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
Moved: -> @@mogwai_poet Not quite true!! I thought about this a lot but since getting a job in the education sector I'm a lot more optimistic. Some of our 15 year olds just... casually made an android app... like, in their spare time. they thought it was easy. "StitchMIT and programming lego robots is for elementary schoolers. Of course we used real code"
And these aren't kids in fancy private schools they're from the most underfunded public school districts in our state.
@mogwai_poet Keep in mind they didn't learn any of this stuff in school; they learned it at our org's programs for them outside of school, but we're far from the only organization giving kids in underfunded school districts a free supplementary education.