Over the course of his 53-year career Miller (not to be confused with a similarly named Cabinet member in the Carter Administration) has been a computer scientist, teacher, software mogul and adviser to venture capitalists and governments.
Applying this definition, we had five low-skilled (enrolled nurse, cleaner, truck driver, auto mechanic, and restaurant worker) and four high-skilled (accountant clerk, preschool teacher, software developer, and salesperson) occupations in our study.
There are a lot of roles that are appealing to me: teacher, software engineer, designer, etc.
I spoke with waiters, cleaners, taxi drivers, porters, tour guides, street vendors, shopkeepers, touts, bus conductors, hawker-centre cooks, street side florists, marketing agents, salesperson, bank tellers, school teachers, software and hardware engineers, paramedics, scientists, journalists and what have you from 9 out of 10 ASEAN nations.
Douglas Hattaway, a spokesman for Vice President Al Gore, countered that in addition to the $3 billion, there was roughly $500 million more now in the federal budget over which states and local districts had ample discretion and could be applied to provide teacher training, software purchases and other steps to make best use of schools' Internet access.
The government has launched the "Year of Code" with a £500,000 fund to train teachers in software coding.
A few months ago George Osborne announced that 2014 would be the Year of Code and launched a £500,000 fund to train teachers in software coding to inspire the next generation of tech entrepreneurs.
But over the last few years, many in the educational research community, from academics and teachers to software developers, have come to the same conclusions as Johnson, and begun to experiment with different ways to harness the cognitive innovations of games in more directed ways.
The teacher-friendly software is now used by 200 schools in 20 states.
Could improving outcomes be as simple as treating teachers like software engineers?
Schools have embraced the changes and, despite a shortage of suitably qualified teachers, coding software such as Scratch is now standard in classrooms, while app-building and even 3D printing are becoming commonplace.
