Coding is More Waluable Than Developing the Ability of Thai Youths to Learn Programming to Control Robots Skillfully

Abstract

This academic article, coding is more valuable than developing the ability of Thai youths to learn programming to control robots skillfully, aims to present the different mindset of the author from those who are involved in the technology course (Computational Science), Science Learning Subject, revised in 2017 by The Thai Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST), such as curriculum developers, teachers, learners, and parents from not only to develop students' skills in programming since childhood to focus on controlling the robot but also to realize Professor Mitchel Resnick (2013) and a group of researchers at the MIT Media Lab who developed coding by embedding a set of instruction programs in the graphic which can be put together to be a completed program like completing the whole picture in jigsaw puzzles. The coding development for learners from kindergarten through secondary school under the name Scratch in May 2007 aims to address the need to enhance skills for 21st-century learners according to the framework presented by the Partnership for 21st-Century Skills (P21, 2002). P21 is an international organization that encourages incorporating important skills such as the 4Cs, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, and Communication, with the main subjects to enhance their 21st-Century important skill. The author develops the SEED of WISDOM learning management model and purposes the Tri-parties Collaboration concept among schools, International and local academic institutes, successful alumni, and parents to apply the SEED of WISDOM model to schools that lack readiness across Thailand. Hope that the SEED of WISDOM model and the tri-party collaboration concept will enhance Thai students to gain the 21st Century skill sets to turn to be world-classed citizens.