Child's play: Coding booms among Chinese children

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Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red T-shirt, an eight-year-old Chinese boy is logged in for an online coding lesson -- as the teacher.

He is among a growing number of children in China who are learning coding even before they enter primary school.

China has been making huge investments in robotics and Artificial Intelligence , with the government issuing in 2017 an AI development plan which suggested programming courses be taught in both primary and secondary schools. "I learnt coding when I was young, so I always believed that Vita learning coding at this age was something normal," he said.

"I suggested to him to record how he rewrote these codes," said Zhou, and the idea for online classes was born. According to Pan, children at six or seven are fully capable of learning coding in cognitive development.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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