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Mayfield adds a new language requirement >JavaScript Elisa Gonzales ’19 describes how the life of a teenager is inextricably linked to the digital world.
“You are always on your phone, you are always using codes and apps, a user name,” she said. “But to actually understand what is behind it? It’s super cool. It’s empowering.” Determined to educate students to “meet the wants of the age,” as our foundress Cornelia Connelly would say, Mayfield introduced a new program critical to the 21st-century education of Elisa and her classmates. Beginning in the 2017-18 school year, every student is required to learn the fundamentals of a new language, the language of code. “Coding is another means of communication and I feel very strongly this is a language that we must teach all of our students,” said Head of School Kate Morin. “What we are doing is taking coding out of the traditional computer science silo and integrating it into classes like theology, history and art.” Creativity. Critical thinking. Logical reasoning. These are the “big picture” skills that our coding program is designed to enhance, said Melissa Tighe, Math Department Chair and Director of Innovation and Community Partnerships. “Computer coding is a tool that every student and teacher
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