Care Economy Skills into Software Development Skills

Many people are assisting children as they develop learning skills as caregivers or family members. Oft times, this can be seen a detriment to the adult's career goals.

By means of a free online course, teaching skills can possibly become software development skills. For example,

Ready, Set, Go

What is wrong with this sentence?

The Answer: it is missing an exclamation point (!).

Those familiar with computer programming will likely to be able to answer the following question:

What is missing?

X does not equal 5.  x  = 5

The Boolean not operator !.

x!=5 is the correct way to write X does not equal 5

From the above, an example can be seen where teaching skills for grades 1-2 can be applied to learning basics of computer programming in a refreshing, new way.

The goal of the solution is to go from this level to teaching debugging.

The other topic presented is loops.

Loops have applications to everyday life for educators.

As a parent or caregiver would instruct a child that there is specific time for an academic activity, there is likely a time range for the activity. For example, it could be 30 minutes for addition and subtraction. This brings up a specific issue in behaviorist applications to education. A student may enjoy working with a calculator for the activity. However, there is a context...the activity is for only 30 minutes in order to make time for other activities and so on.

   In terms of the care economy, the above is a good example of how helping the child learn a skill can help one learn an important topic in computer science:

  A program can be written to add numbers in sequence...1+1=2, 2+1=3, and so on. However, when does the adding stop? Like a time limit, a program can stop when a certain number is reached. To the function of adding or subtracting, a context can be created for when the activity stops. This is very brief description of a loop. This method of explaining it has interesting applications in special needs education in terms of behaviorist approaches. This is explained in more detail in the online course.

Caregivers and family members assisting children with learning development.

The solution appears to be innovative.

I think this solution could help many people.

It appears to be a creative way to apply care economy skills to digital technology job skills.

The goal in the next to five years is to have students enrolled in Least Developed Countries (LDC).

Student enrollment as well as completion of the course is a key measure of the impact goal.

The theory of change is to take a skill developed for managing an issues, children's education assistance, and to be able to apply it to high tech job skills.

Computer programming technology is the core technology.

The program will require a diversity of staff for translating the course into the languages of regions most in need of economic assistance.

The goal is funding by means of grants.

The goal would be sustainability by means of grants.

There are no examples at this moment.