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Learning to code is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's schools and afterschool programs. And why not? There are countless benefits of learning to code: practicing critical thinking, problem solving, processing, and systematic thinking skills, to name a few.
One can argue that applying a growth mindset to any skill or trade can help you improve in that domain. While this may be true, I’d argue that it’s hard to find a practice that pairs more seamlessly with programming than growth mindset. There is a hot debate in the education world about whether coding is the new literacy of the future. Because we’ve seen the adoption of coding curricula spread nationwide, we want to explore how growth mindset can tie into this practice.
Walking through the halls of your school and overhearing the chatter of students in the hallways and classrooms, have any of these phrases ever caught your attention?
“What a loser!”
“He’s just a mean person; there’s no changing him.”
“She doesn’t fit in anywhere.”
