[ubuntu-uk] School Curiculum WAS: Royal Society... IT is boring?
The Royal Society do, at least, appear to have someone on their advisory board who seems to understand the problem. From their website: Professor Matthew Harrison, Director of Education at The Royal Academy of Engineering said: “Young people have huge appetites for the computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer technology and not just consume it”. (As far as I know, Matthew Harrison is no relation) :-) Mark Harrison -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] School Curiculum WAS: Royal Society... IT is boring?
On 26/08/2010 10:43, Mark Harrison wrote: The Royal Society do, at least, appear to have someone on their advisory board who seems to understand the problem. From their website: Professor Matthew Harrison, Director of Education at The Royal Academy of Engineering said: “Young people have huge appetites for the computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer technology and not just consume it”. Maybe the answer is as posited in the other thread: Use the other GCSE subjects to teach basic computer and application USAGE (and preferably not just MS orientated), and change the GCSE IT course into a programmers/designers course, again preferably Open Source biased to the pupils can actually write new code, and, probably more importantly, amend and de-bug currently-used applications etc. You could put all sorts of things into it like robotics and embedded devices... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] School Curiculum WAS: Royal Society... IT is boring?
here's a good title for a lesson: how to command anon to destroy M$ in 3 easy steps! On 26 August 2010 11:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2010 10:43, Mark Harrison wrote: The Royal Society do, at least, appear to have someone on their advisory board who seems to understand the problem. From their website: Professor Matthew Harrison, Director of Education at The Royal Academy of Engineering said: “Young people have huge appetites for the computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer technology and not just consume it”. Maybe the answer is as posited in the other thread: Use the other GCSE subjects to teach basic computer and application USAGE (and preferably not just MS orientated), and change the GCSE IT course into a programmers/designers course, again preferably Open Source biased to the pupils can actually write new code, and, probably more importantly, amend and de-bug currently-used applications etc. You could put all sorts of things into it like robotics and embedded devices... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
