{"id":102317,"date":"2022-12-12T15:52:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=102317"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:52:37","slug":"ontario-updating-computer-science-and-tech-curriculum-to-include-more-hands-on-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/ontario-updating-computer-science-and-tech-curriculum-to-include-more-hands-on-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario updating computer science and tech curriculum to include more hands-on learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102318\" src=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium.jpg\" alt=\"computer - milenio stadium\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium.jpg 780w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario&#8217;s education minister says the province is updating its curriculum in both computer science and technological education to include more hands-on learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Lecce says the changes will give students experience with new technology, expose them to real-life\u00a0problem solving and prepare them for the job market.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the updated computer studies curriculum will start with a new Grade 10 course in September and will give students\u00a0the opportunity to apply coding concepts, build hands-on projects,\u00a0and investigate artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The technological education curriculum updates are set to start with revised Grade 9 and 10 courses in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The government says the updates will reflect automation advancements in agriculture, manufacturing, and construction, and\u00a0the new course material will prepare students for careers as electricians and plumbers and in communications and manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario last updated the technological education curriculum in 2009 and the computer science curriculum was last updated in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ontario&#8217;s education minister says the province is updating its curriculum in both computer science and technological education to include more hands-on learning. Stephen Lecce says the changes will give &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":102318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3539],"tags":[4424,22604],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/computer-milenio-stadium.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102320,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102317\/revisions\/102320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}