The Ontario government has introduced a new science curriculum for Grades 1 to 8, with the focus on “modernization” of course contents to incorporate engineering, coding, artificial intelligence, and other skills needed in the present-day economy. Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce announced the implementation of the new curriculum in a press conference on Tuesday. “We’re excited to launch it today as part of a broader modernization and overhaul the Ontario curriculum to finally align what we teach your kids with … the skills the economy needs,” he said, adding that such “disconnect” between what’s being taught in schools and what employment skills are needed has existed for the past 15 years. “We didn’t talk about AI in skilled trades, we didn’t teach them how to code in Ontario until our government brought forth these types of reforms. So we are going where the puck is going in the sense …