“The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?”
– Dan Millman, The Four Purposes of Life

From an email I received from the Khan Academy (I signed up for these types of updates and reminders)
This week, across over 150 countries, millions of people and students will try out computer programming for the first time. Anyone can learn to code!

Start the Hour of Code
The Hour of Code is an hour-long introduction to computer programming that’s both fun and free. At Khan Academy, we’ve crafted several different Hour of Code lessons that require no prior experience. Try one or try them all and get new badges for each lesson in the process!

Try Hour of Code on Khan Academy!
Hour of Drawing with Code: Learn to program using JavaScript, one of the world’s most popular programming languages via two great options:

Drag-and-drop: experimental block-based coding for those with less-developed typing skills and on tablet devices (ages 8+).
Typing: keyboard-based coding (ages 10+).
Hour of Webpages: Learn to make your own webpages using the basics of HTML and CSS (ages 10+).

Hour of Databases: Learn the fundamentals of databases using SQL to create tables, insert data into them, and do basic querying (ages 12+).

We’ve created lessons that will show you how fun coding and building things can be. Now you’ll be part of creating technology, not just using it!

Code on!

Sal
Founder of Khan Academy and lover of code

Our students participate in the Hour of Code and some of our students will grow up and become future computer scientists! Our schools offer opportunities for all types of learners and all types of people in order to prepare for the future – the future our students will lead!

I often look to TED videos as we consider all that we are doing and all we still need to do. How much recent technology is no longer “current technology”, what is now obsolete? what is now “new” – remember – it’s exponential times in which we live and it’s exponential times we are teaching our students to thrive, succeed, and blossom. It’s interesting to hear the perspectives about school and work force design from multiple perspectives.