By Phillip Jackson
If you are not able to
code and if you are not computer literate, you are pretty much a 21st
century digital slave. If you don't have access to and are using the
internet for personal growth and development, you are pretty much a 21st
century digital slave. If you are not encouraging your schools to
teach coding and computer literacy to your children, and if you are not
allowing your children to learn, read and write code, you are promising
your children 21st century digital slavery.
If your children are
playing video games, rather than creating video games, they too, will be
consigned to 21st century digital slavery. If you are not learning
coding yourself, you have relegated yourself to the old way of being
educated and the old way of existing. You have made yourself obsolete.
You have volunteered to be a 21st century digital slave!
It is time for all
people, but especially Black people, to run away from digital slavery to
digital freedom and digital excellence! The most widely spoken
language in world in the near future is not going to be English,
Chinese, Hindi, Swahili or Spanish-it is going to be a language of
computer coding. People in every country will speak this language. 90%
of all new jobs in the world will require employees to speak this
language. You will not be able to live (well) anywhere in the world
without this language.
The Black
Star Project will offer introductory classes to coding and computer
literacy during the holidays. Effective education can no longer occur
just between 8:30 am and 2:30 pm, Monday through Friday, for 200 school
days a year. Learning has become too important to leave to schools!
Learning must be driven by parents, families and communities, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year!.
Learning is no longer a
local activity, but a global imperative. Just as some slaves became
accustomed to chattel slavery, some people are becoming accustomed to
the new 21st century digital slavery. The only way to break these bonds
that rob people of dignity and freedom are with "new learning".
Please have your 8- to
14-year old students join us for homework help, computer coding,
financial literacy, college exposure, entrepreneurship, Black History
(without slavery) and more at our Holiday Saturday University over the next 2 weeks. While there is no cost for the classes, the learning that your children will receive is invaluable!
Please call Raquel at 773.285.9600 for more information about these free classes.
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