You don't need the teaching of abstract concepts. Why not just let students roam free with "programming", a set of api's, so they can roam with free with creativity. Why even teach arithmetic? Just given them the arithmetic computer functions and let them play around with it. As students build games or whatever else they'll discover the concepts that you might consider important themselves.
What use is the periodic table for almost anyone. Teaching the periodic table should be left for someone wishing to pursue research in chemistry, maybe as a 20 year old. The basic skills that chemists probably use today, like computer programming, would have been ingrained throughout k12.
What use is the periodic table for almost anyone. Teaching the periodic table should be left for someone wishing to pursue research in chemistry, maybe as a 20 year old. The basic skills that chemists probably use today, like computer programming, would have been ingrained throughout k12.