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Syosset presents K-12 push to treat coding as an algorithmic literacy
Summary
District leaders described a K-12 strategy to teach computational thinking, digital fluency and cybersecurity as core literacies beginning in kindergarten and extending through high-school robotics, drones and university partnerships.
Syosset Central School District officials on Feb. 13 presented the district's long-term approach to algorithmic literacy, emphasizing computer science, digital fluency and cybersecurity from kindergarten through high school.
Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Ray LaVersa introduced the district's vision of algorithmic thinking as a literacy comparable to English and numeracy and noted the district's work dating to 2014 in building K-12 pathways. Christine Payne, the district's K-12 coordinator for administrative and…
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