Apple
describes Swift Playgrounds as “a revolutionary new app for iPad that
makes learning Swift interactive and fun.” Swift is a programming language
created by Apple and used to build many of today’s iOS apps. But, as CNET points out, Microsoft and Google have their own
initiatives to help kids learn to code.
Swift
Playgrounds will be in the Apple App store.
Teachers
and schools looking for new opportunities to get students exposed to computer
science may like Swift Playgrounds as an option.
So far, only one in four
schools offer computer science classes to students, according to Code.org.
States, though, are beginning to
consider adding new curricular requirements across the K-12 spectrum. In California, there is
support for including computer science in the Next Generation Science
Standards, which have followed up the Common Core’s unified national focus on
math and English Language Arts.
Georgia, Texas, and New Jersey are among the
states that already have K-12 computer science curriculum standards, but
they remain in the distinct minority
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