It was one of my first music lessons for 5th graders when I realized how lost I was as a teacher. I had dreams about lessons where we listen to cool songs, play as a band and enjoy. This way my students would eventually fall in love with music. Then the reality slapped me in the face.
At Education Alliance Finland, we often get to evaluate educational solutions for learning programming.
There are several reasons for this: The digital world is created by programming, so it is natural to teach programming in digital environment. Programming languages are systematic and logical, so it is easy to create problems, which have easily identifiable right and wrong answers. Coding skills and computational thinking are also among the most desired 21st century skills and part of many new curricula, which creates demand for teaching resources.
