Mike Carter
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Mike Carter
@CarterleaM
Former primary teacher, Computing Adviser and CLC Deputy Manager. Now Director TynCan. Working to place digital technologies into the hands of young people!






TEACHING OUR KIDS TO CODE 🤷♂️ It’s #NationalCodingWeek but frankly not much has changed… Our kids still need the BASIC skills and it never ceases to amaze us how many primary kids in schools we visit across the UK have still not even experienced the BBC Micro:bit @BarclaysUK used to do a lot via @DigitalEagles but now next to nothing As this film from 2018 shows @GoogleUK used to invest heavily in supporting #EuCodeWeek but their focus is now on AI to support their bigger corporate objectives which is great and important but our kids still have very basic needs The need to be #InspiredToLearn the basics, once we get them going they’ll be off and self learn But why should it be left to these companies in isolation? Even the US Ambasssor has ambitions for UK kids Last year @MichelleDonelan then Minister @SciTechgovuk said the #DigitalSkillsCrisis was costing UK GDP $150 BILLION!!! Helping our kids find their passion whether cooking, cardboard modelling or coding is all part of the ambition behind #OurCreativityRevolution✊ But as our pensioners know there’s “no Magic Money Tree” WHO WILL HELP US MAKE IT HAPPEN? From Shropshire, Yorkshire and Cornwall to the Country
















