The major forces that drives parents away from campus schools and into homeschooling are, the declining quality of the campus schools, their passion of involvement in the education process with their children and their ability to fully monitor their children’s progress. Parents can’t be always sure about the quality of education delivered to their children and even if they became sure, they can’t trust the environment in school to be suitable to their children morally.
Homeschooling is the education of students at home and not traditional campus schools where compulsory attendance is present. It is usually conducted by a parent or a private tutor. According to a study conducted by the US National Center for Education, about three percent of all children in the US were homeschooled in 2011-2012 school year. As of 2016, there are about 2.3 million home-schooled students in the United States.
But an interesting fact here is that homeschoolers usually score at or above the national average on standardized tests. There have been some claims that homeschoolers may lack the necessary social skills necessary to interact with people in real-life and job market, studies came to the rescue by showing that 98% of students participated in 2 or more activities outside their home.
More than 1 million vacancies that include computer programming by the year 2020 and the number is expected to increase with no sufficient computer science and engineering graduates to make up for the gap. So, why not use fuse the two concepts together, incorporate coding into homeschools and everybody wins. But, let’s first discuss some facts related to coding and code education.
Coding dependent jobs are among the highest-paying jobs worldwide with an average of 92$K per year and increase by seniority. Coding jobs are among the most wanted jobs in freelance market as well. A recent study showed that coding enhance the brain functions and acts like a brain workout, it teaches discipline, critical thinking and debugging skills.
Coding education doesn’t require a lot of prerequisites from the learner or the teacher, it also doesn’t require certain age, you can start as early as possible and it is not late even if you are in your fifties.
Robogarden has done the fusion process with its platform that opens doors to everyone. While children can start from scratch and reach a professional level in languages like python and JavaScript in a game environment, they can also learn a lot about Math, physics and earth sciences. Parents can track their children’s progress and provide them with model answers, they can even take the courses to be able to asses them if they had no programming background.
Parents have a variety of tools and statistics generated that help them take full control of the education process and make sure it is on track.
The courses are developed by both engineers and education experts giving us the best of both worlds and preparing children for the job market either by joining a corporate, working as freelancers or starting up.
