Prior to her entry to the teaching profession, Gina worked as a computer programmer in a well-known technology company. She ...
Is learning how to write computer code the answer to teaching primary school students how to think?
This is the second in a series of four vignettes about teachers and students in the “High Possibility Classrooms” (Hunter, 2013) research in Australian schools. The question that leads the title of this article was raised in interview with Gina, another teacher in the study, who taught 9-10 year olds in an older more established school in a large metropolitan city.
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