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HeadPhotoPaulWe had a quiff look.

“Children aged from 5-11 have so much potential for learning about algorithms and computation that it would be a shame to wait until they are teenagers before we teach them the foundations.”

J Paul Gibson, above.

Carter writes:

In reading this month’s US edition of Wired magazine, I happened upon an excellent write-up of one of Ireland’s own in regards to teaching kids to code. J Paul Gibson, formerly of NUI, made some pretty astounding progress in teaching very young kids about coding. With all of the less than favourable news abound these days, we should take the time to celebrate the successes  as well.

 

Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code (Wired)<

Fair play though, in fairness.

Alan Costello writes:

NUI Maynooth today opens their new library, and as I walked around it this morning I noticed an Inter-Gender bathroom (above).

This is not a unisex/single sex bathroom, [there are the usual male, female and   wheelchair bathrooms in the library too].

The Inter-Gender bathroom provides for transgendered, transexual, queer or questioning people who may not identify as strictly male or female.

It represents a great acceptance especially in a university still associated with the seminary and I think it may be one of the first ones in an Irish University.