This has gone way off-topic, and really needs to be moved to luv-talk
please.
thanks,
/ Brett
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Roger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20/11/12 16:49, Russell Coker wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> English lit, now that is a subject that's pure child-minding. Should go
> >> back to teaching rhetoric and grammar.
> > The subject "English" should be about blogging, email, twitter, SMS, and
> > writing technical documents - with probably about that order of
> importance.
> >
> >>> If we are going to maintain the illusion that school is teaching
> >>> skills that are relevant to work then we should be able to have
> >>> schools implement practices that work in a commercial environment.
> >> So... how to spend all day on facebook while pretending to use word?
> >> They cover that in the "IT" classes.
> > True.
> >
> >
> >
> > Except, as I understand the changes to the Australian curriculum from
> > day one next year, IT is no longer a subject.
> > It is/was is so dumbed down that most kids have been doing the subject
> > matter as part of their social life. School just rehashes what they
> > know, teachers are behind the times by 5 years or more and the average
> > to brighter kids are bored out of their brains.
> From next year, every teacher from sport, English, math and science and
> social sciences will have to teach IT.
> History is now history of Asia and aborigines, not history of Australia.
> They're not even maintaining the illusion. Grammar is off the table as
> is spelling.
>
>
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