Lengthy-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
The tech-backed and directed nonprofit Code.org is again with a brand new name for America’s Governors, saying its “tenth coverage suggestion for all states.” Their suggestion? “To require all college students to take laptop science to earn a highschool diploma.”
Arguing that “synthetic intelligence has elevated the urgency to make sure our college students are adequately ready for a quickly altering world,” Code.org explains its imaginative and prescient: that states have “a coverage that requires all college students to earn a credit score named ‘laptop science’ or has a associated identify that features ‘laptop science'”. Heretofore, Code.org has stated, “Our imaginative and prescient is that each scholar in each college has the alternative to be taught laptop science, identical to biology, chemistry, or algebra.”
Code.org’s name for a highschool CS commencement requirement in response to latest AI breakthroughs comes two months after the non-profit launched TeachAI, a Code.org-led and seed-funded effort supported by a coalition of tech and academic organizations, together with Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, Meta, and (newly AI-powered) Khan Academy. “TeachAI,” the initiative’s web site explains, “is committing to offer thought management to information governments and academic leaders in aligning training with the wants of an more and more AI-driven world and connecting the dialogue of educating with AI to educating about AI and laptop science.”
