Taiwan’s educational landscape is shifting as parents and institutions adapt to a future that mandates coding skills from middle school through to university.

The News Lens
Date: 2018/03/06
By: Rosemary Chen

This is the second of a 2 part series. You can read part 1 here. In part 2, Rosemary Chen

Credit: OrangeApple

goes back to school as Taiwan’s kids and their teachers struggle to adapt to demands for a universal coding future.
With thick round glasses and strays of grey hair neatly tied back into a long pony-tail, Wang Xiu-lan (王秀蘭) sits in the seating area patiently waiting for her son to get out of class on a Saturday morning at OrangeApple — Taiwan’s first coding school for kids.

Previously preoccupied by the cross-stitch on her table, she cautiously puts it aside to answer questions. Her child is in fourth grade and has been coming to the academy every weekend since September last year. “I think information technology (IT) education is important and there are few opportunities at school for teacher-student interactions in Taiwan,” she says.    [FULL  STORY]