By Mutuvi Janet
Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) Chief Executive Officer David Njengere said that KNEC is preparing assessment tools that will be used to examine Coding in primary and secondary schools.
Speaking during a symposium organized by the Kenya Association of International Schools (KAIS) collaborating with Kodris Africa, Rusinga School and Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), he revealed that education stakeholders had confirmed the adoption of Coding as a subject in schools from elementary level with the view of enhancing the digital economy.
“The process of developing procedures and assessment tools for the syllabus has begun and the process will favor all the children,” he stated.
Charles Munene, the Assistant Director of e-Learning said that Coding was becoming the most in-demand job skill of the future.
He said that learners should acquire digital skills needed to drive the fourth industrial revolution which entails cyber-physical systems, industrial internet of things, cloud computing, cognitive computing and artificial intelligence.
Coding has been embraced in other developing countries like Singapore and Japan who have been teaching their children from kindergarten.
Kenya is believed to be the first Africa country to deploy coding to learning institutions.
Coding is the process of converting human intentions into commands that computer can understand. It is said to be one of the building blocks in Information Technology (IT) and builds some of the technological products that we consume.
