Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Boh Heong Yap]

Re: BCPM,

Frm the draft, it's GOING to be a bunch of appointees, how many of them will be 
professionals?

For any other professional body, doctors, lawyers, accountants... There would 
be huge uproar, if the government appoints its committee members! 

Regds. Boh
Sent from my iPhone.

On 13/01/2012, at 10:35 AM, Raja Iskandar Shah  wrote:

> i personally dont mind having a public service (more doctors, more nurses, 
> more teachers, more policemen, more social welfare workers, etc. ). was 
> in pusat kesihatan putrajaya presint 9 yesterday, and it took 1.5 hours to 
> get my blood sample and urine sample. 90% of that time was waiting in a queue
> 
> we also need administrators (but not too many of them). BUT in the present 
> situation, whether public or private, it is the administrators that are 
> dictating the professionals rather than assisting the professionals to get 
> the job done.
> 
> in a weird way, i am for the BCPM, if this means that we can 'weed' out 
> politicians / cronies and let the real professionals do the job. the tricky 
> bit is how to make sure the professionals are in control.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:25 PM, red1  wrote:
> Our govt workforce is bloated (4% of population) to double the average of our 
> neighbours for obvious political reasons. The govt servants cannot help it 
> but to find something meaningful to do. It is best you yourself get out of 
> the way by not suscribing to work in one country only.
> 
> red1
> Greetings from Bogota, COLOMBIA.
> 
> 
> On 1/12/12 5:18 PM, sweemeng ng wrote:
> If we can just left alone to do the job our self without interference.
> Or a sign that writes "PROFESSIONAL AT WORK, POLITICIAN KEEP OUT"
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Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Raja Iskandar Shah]

i personally dont mind having a public service (more doctors, more nurses,
more teachers, more policemen, more social welfare workers, etc. ). was
in pusat kesihatan putrajaya presint 9 yesterday, and it took 1.5 hours to
get my blood sample and urine sample. 90% of that time was waiting in a
queue

we also need administrators (but not too many of them). BUT in the present
situation, whether public or private, it is the administrators that are
dictating the professionals rather than assisting the professionals to get
the job done.

in a weird way, i am for the BCPM, if this means that we can 'weed' out
politicians / cronies and let the real professionals do the job. the tricky
bit is how to make sure the professionals are in control.




On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:25 PM, red1  wrote:

> Our govt workforce is bloated (4% of population) to double the average of
> our neighbours for obvious political reasons. The govt servants cannot help
> it but to find something meaningful to do. It is best you yourself get out
> of the way by not suscribing to work in one country only.
>
> red1
> Greetings from Bogota, COLOMBIA.
>
>
> On 1/12/12 5:18 PM, sweemeng ng wrote:
>
>> If we can just left alone to do the job our self without interference.
>> Or a sign that writes "PROFESSIONAL AT WORK, POLITICIAN KEEP OUT"
>>
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Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[red1]

Our govt workforce is bloated (4% of population) to double the average 
of our neighbours for obvious political reasons. The govt servants 
cannot help it but to find something meaningful to do. It is best you 
yourself get out of the way by not suscribing to work in one country only.


red1
Greetings from Bogota, COLOMBIA.

On 1/12/12 5:18 PM, sweemeng ng wrote:
If we can just left alone to do the job our self 
without interference.

Or a sign that writes "PROFESSIONAL AT WORK, POLITICIAN KEEP OUT"


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Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Boh Yap]

..its not just open source, altho we all know that is important,
but also NOTE that the new policy serves to REMOVE CENTRALISED CONTROL and
allow schools to implement their own deployment based on a common strategy!

This is the EXACT opposite of the way we do things in M'sia, which is to
impose MORE CONTROLS (irrespective of whether they know what they are
doing) which most of the time is not!

note: Singapore also follows the same modus-operandi,  but they have
technocrats (politicians with PhDs...) that know what the are doing
(mostly).  ;-)

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, sweemeng ng  wrote:

> If we can just left alone to do the job our self without interference.
> Or a sign that writes "PROFESSIONAL AT WORK, POLITICIAN KEEP OUT"
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:
>
>> Hi Raja,
>>
>> Happy new year, I always had an iPhone, it's just that it was a 'cracked'
>> 1st generation one, which was stuck with IOs 2.x (since every time you
>> upgrade, it had to be cracked again! I didn't bother; plus I'm not an
>> AppStore junkie. So that old phone seved we well.
>>
>> Then I got  iPhone4 (not S), when a relative upgraded to the 4s. It was
>> tied to Maxis, and I am  Digi user, so I put off cracking it as I am busy
>> with other things. That was about until 2 weeks ago, then I lost my older
>> iPhone, and was forced to crack the 'new' phone. So I now use that, and
>> have lighttpd and SSHD running on it! Now to find a decent TTY app and then
>> I can ssh into my servers!
>>
>> Then I 'discovered' it had a very good Gmail, and Apple .mac mail app,
>> and set it up with IMAP and both services support push mail  so I now do
>> most of my short mails on the iPhone. For long mails or when I need to cut
>> & paste stuff, like blocks of logs or code, then I use the  notebook. I
>> find 3G good enough for most things and if I need higher bandwidth, Wifi
>> does OK. It moves  between wifi and 3G transparently, except in places that
>> you have to log in. If passwords are saved in keychains, then that its
>> really transparent, like with my home wifi.
>>
>> Yes call me a 'caveman'; all that passed me by becos my old iPhone didn't
>> even have 3G! So it was mainly used as a phone/PDA, not a mobile Internet
>> device!
>>
>> And I still do carry my MacBook wherever I go, it's just that I do  of
>> pull it out so often.
>>
>> I've been busy lately, involved in a start-up, and doing the MDeC, Cradle
>> merry go round. Got a chance to talk to some real silicon valley experts
>> (VC, angels, founders, not some local wannabes), thru Innotech Malaysia,
>> Silicon Valley comes to Malaysia events. Really inspiring, hence the
>> disappointment in seeing the 'impedence mismatch(contradiction)' in
>> policies and strategy between those events and stupid policy on edu, and
>> now the BCPM!
>>
>> How to achieve ETP(economic transformation program), let alone achieve it
>> by 2020?
>>
>>
>> Regds. Boh
>> Sent from my iPhone.
>>
>> On 12/01/2012, at 4:03 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Boh, you have an iPhone now ?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:
>>
>>> If only our gov. & edu institutions are so enlightened!
>>> Can they make a U-turn after heading down the wrong direction for so
>>> long?
>>>
>>> And now with Sc. & Tech. Ministry also seeming to go the wrong way; with
>>> the CPB, will Malaysia be less and less competitive in the global economy?
>>>
>>> Will we be "...left behind in the e-dust of the K-economy"?
>>>
>>> Regds. Boh
>>> Sent from my iPhone.
>>>
>>> On 11/01/2012, at 3:17 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> More stuff happening in the UK
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign
>>>
>>> I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi
>>> magazine ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah <
>>> rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons

 Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons

 Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under
 plans for open source curriculum

  The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically
 overhauled, with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for
 new lessons designed by industry and universities, Michael 
 Gove will
 announce on Wednesday.

 In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum
 in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored
 out of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored
 teachers".

 Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in
 computer science by giving 
 schools the
 freedom to use teaching resources designed with input 

Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[sweemeng ng]

If we can just left alone to do the job our self without interference.
Or a sign that writes "PROFESSIONAL AT WORK, POLITICIAN KEEP OUT"

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:

> Hi Raja,
>
> Happy new year, I always had an iPhone, it's just that it was a 'cracked'
> 1st generation one, which was stuck with IOs 2.x (since every time you
> upgrade, it had to be cracked again! I didn't bother; plus I'm not an
> AppStore junkie. So that old phone seved we well.
>
> Then I got  iPhone4 (not S), when a relative upgraded to the 4s. It was
> tied to Maxis, and I am  Digi user, so I put off cracking it as I am busy
> with other things. That was about until 2 weeks ago, then I lost my older
> iPhone, and was forced to crack the 'new' phone. So I now use that, and
> have lighttpd and SSHD running on it! Now to find a decent TTY app and then
> I can ssh into my servers!
>
> Then I 'discovered' it had a very good Gmail, and Apple .mac mail app, and
> set it up with IMAP and both services support push mail  so I now do most
> of my short mails on the iPhone. For long mails or when I need to cut &
> paste stuff, like blocks of logs or code, then I use the  notebook. I find
> 3G good enough for most things and if I need higher bandwidth, Wifi does
> OK. It moves  between wifi and 3G transparently, except in places that you
> have to log in. If passwords are saved in keychains, then that its really
> transparent, like with my home wifi.
>
> Yes call me a 'caveman'; all that passed me by becos my old iPhone didn't
> even have 3G! So it was mainly used as a phone/PDA, not a mobile Internet
> device!
>
> And I still do carry my MacBook wherever I go, it's just that I do  of
> pull it out so often.
>
> I've been busy lately, involved in a start-up, and doing the MDeC, Cradle
> merry go round. Got a chance to talk to some real silicon valley experts
> (VC, angels, founders, not some local wannabes), thru Innotech Malaysia,
> Silicon Valley comes to Malaysia events. Really inspiring, hence the
> disappointment in seeing the 'impedence mismatch(contradiction)' in
> policies and strategy between those events and stupid policy on edu, and
> now the BCPM!
>
> How to achieve ETP(economic transformation program), let alone achieve it
> by 2020?
>
>
> Regds. Boh
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On 12/01/2012, at 4:03 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
> wrote:
>
> Boh, you have an iPhone now ?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:
>
>> If only our gov. & edu institutions are so enlightened!
>> Can they make a U-turn after heading down the wrong direction for so long?
>>
>> And now with Sc. & Tech. Ministry also seeming to go the wrong way; with
>> the CPB, will Malaysia be less and less competitive in the global economy?
>>
>> Will we be "...left behind in the e-dust of the K-economy"?
>>
>> Regds. Boh
>> Sent from my iPhone.
>>
>> On 11/01/2012, at 3:17 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
>> wrote:
>>
>> More stuff happening in the UK
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign
>>
>> I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi
>> magazine ?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah <
>> rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
>>>
>>> Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons
>>>
>>> Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under
>>> plans for open source curriculum
>>>
>>>  The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically
>>> overhauled, with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for
>>> new lessons designed by industry and universities, Michael 
>>> Gove will
>>> announce on Wednesday.
>>>
>>> In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum in
>>> Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored out
>>> of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers".
>>>
>>> Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in
>>> computer science by giving 
>>> schools the
>>> freedom to use teaching resources designed with input from leading
>>> employers and academics, in changes that will come into effect this
>>> September.
>>>
>>> The announcement follows pressure from businesses critical of a
>>> shortage of computer-literate 
>>> recruits
>>>  –
>>> a deficit highlighted by a Guardian 
>>> campaign
>>>  launched
>>> this week.
>>>
>>> ICT will remain compulsory and will still be taught at every stage of
>>> the curriculum. In a speech to 
>>> BETT,
>>> a trade fair which showcases educational technology, Gove will say Britain

Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Boh Heong Yap]

Hi Raja,

Happy new year, I always had an iPhone, it's just that it was a 'cracked' 1st 
generation one, which was stuck with IOs 2.x (since every time you upgrade, it 
had to be cracked again! I didn't bother; plus I'm not an AppStore junkie. So 
that old phone seved we well.

Then I got  iPhone4 (not S), when a relative upgraded to the 4s. It was tied to 
Maxis, and I am  Digi user, so I put off cracking it as I am busy with other 
things. That was about until 2 weeks ago, then I lost my older iPhone, and was 
forced to crack the 'new' phone. So I now use that, and have lighttpd and SSHD 
running on it! Now to find a decent TTY app and then I can ssh into my servers!

Then I 'discovered' it had a very good Gmail, and Apple .mac mail app, and set 
it up with IMAP and both services support push mail  so I now do most of my 
short mails on the iPhone. For long mails or when I need to cut & paste stuff, 
like blocks of logs or code, then I use the  notebook. I find 3G good enough 
for most things and if I need higher bandwidth, Wifi does OK. It moves  between 
wifi and 3G transparently, except in places that you have to log in. If 
passwords are saved in keychains, then that its really transparent, like with 
my home wifi.

Yes call me a 'caveman'; all that passed me by becos my old iPhone didn't even 
have 3G! So it was mainly used as a phone/PDA, not a mobile Internet device!

And I still do carry my MacBook wherever I go, it's just that I do  of pull it 
out so often.

I've been busy lately, involved in a start-up, and doing the MDeC, Cradle merry 
go round. Got a chance to talk to some real silicon valley experts (VC, angels, 
founders, not some local wannabes), thru Innotech Malaysia, Silicon Valley 
comes to Malaysia events. Really inspiring, hence the disappointment in seeing 
the 'impedence mismatch(contradiction)' in policies and strategy between those 
events and stupid policy on edu, and now the BCPM!

How to achieve ETP(economic transformation program), let alone achieve it by 
2020?

Regds. Boh
Sent from my iPhone.

On 12/01/2012, at 4:03 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah  wrote:

> Boh, you have an iPhone now ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:
> If only our gov. & edu institutions are so enlightened!
> Can they make a U-turn after heading down the wrong direction for so long?
> 
> And now with Sc. & Tech. Ministry also seeming to go the wrong way; with the 
> CPB, will Malaysia be less and less competitive in the global economy?
> 
> Will we be "...left behind in the e-dust of the K-economy"?
> 
> Regds. Boh
> Sent from my iPhone.
> 
> On 11/01/2012, at 3:17 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah  wrote:
> 
>> More stuff happening in the UK
>> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign
>> 
>> I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi 
>> magazine ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
>> 
>> Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons
>> Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under plans 
>> for open source curriculum
>> The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically overhauled, 
>> with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for new lessons 
>> designed by industry and universities, Michael Gove will announce on 
>> Wednesday.
>> 
>> In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum in 
>> Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored out 
>> of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers".
>> 
>> Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in computer 
>> science by giving schools the freedom to use teaching resources designed 
>> with input from leading employers and academics, in changes that will come 
>> into effect this September.
>> 
>> The announcement follows pressure from businesses critical of a shortage of 
>> computer-literate recruits – a deficit highlighted by a Guardian campaign 
>> launched this week.
>> 
>> ICT will remain compulsory and will still be taught at every stage of the 
>> curriculum. In a speech to BETT, a trade fair which showcases educational 
>> technology, Gove will say Britain should revive the legacy of the 
>> mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing by creating a generation 
>> of young people able to work at the forefront of technological change.
>> 
>> He will say: "Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just a 
>> few years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum. 
>> Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word 
>> and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 
>> 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.
>> 
>> "By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously covered 
>> only in uni

Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Raja Iskandar Shah]

Boh, you have an iPhone now ?



On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Boh Heong Yap  wrote:

> If only our gov. & edu institutions are so enlightened!
> Can they make a U-turn after heading down the wrong direction for so long?
>
> And now with Sc. & Tech. Ministry also seeming to go the wrong way; with
> the CPB, will Malaysia be less and less competitive in the global economy?
>
> Will we be "...left behind in the e-dust of the K-economy"?
>
> Regds. Boh
> Sent from my iPhone.
>
> On 11/01/2012, at 3:17 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah 
> wrote:
>
> More stuff happening in the UK
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign
>
> I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi
> magazine ?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah <
> rajaiskand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
>>
>> Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons
>>
>> Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under
>> plans for open source curriculum
>>
>>  The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically
>> overhauled, with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for
>> new lessons designed by industry and universities, Michael 
>> Gove will
>> announce on Wednesday.
>>
>> In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum in
>> Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored out
>> of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers".
>>
>> Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in
>> computer science by giving 
>> schools the
>> freedom to use teaching resources designed with input from leading
>> employers and academics, in changes that will come into effect this
>> September.
>>
>> The announcement follows pressure from businesses critical of a shortage
>> of computer-literate 
>> recruits
>>  –
>> a deficit highlighted by a Guardian 
>> campaign
>>  launched
>> this week.
>>
>> ICT will remain compulsory and will still be taught at every stage of the
>> curriculum. In a speech to 
>> BETT,
>> a trade fair which showcases educational technology, Gove will say Britain
>> should revive the legacy of the mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan
>> Turing  by creating a
>> generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technological
>> change.
>>
>> He will say: "Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just
>> a few years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum.
>> Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word
>> and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write
>> simple 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.
>>
>> "By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously
>> covered only in university courses and be writing their own apps for
>> smartphones."
>>
>> A consultation on the plans will be launched next week. Ministers are
>> keen to see universities and businesses creating a new computer science
>> GCSE and developing a curriculum that encourages schools to make use of
>> computer science content on the web. IBM and Microsoft are already working
>> on a pilot GCSE curriculum.
>>
>> The British Computer Society  (BCS) has developed a
>> curriculum for key stages three and four – the years leading up to GCSE –
>> which has had input from Microsoft, Google and Cambridge University.
>>
>> In the speech, Gove will set out the government's thinking on computer
>> science and cite its transformational impact on other disciplines.
>>
>> He will say: "Twenty years ago, medicine was not an information
>> technology. Now, genomes have been decoded and the technologies of
>> biological engineering and synthetic biology are transforming medicine. The
>> boundary between biology and IT is already blurring into whole new fields,
>> like bioinformatics.
>>
>> "Twenty years ago, only a tiny number of specialists knew what the
>> internet was and what it might shortly become. Now billions of people and
>> trillions of cheap sensors are connecting to each other, all over the world
>> – and more come online every minute of every day."
>>
>> He will pay tribute to Turing as a hero who "laid the foundation stones
>> on which all modern computing rests".
>>
>> The speech will be critical of the failure of existing ICT provision. He
>> will say: "Our school system has not prepared children for this new world.
>> Millions have left school over the past decade without even the basics they
>> need 

Re: [osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Boh Heong Yap]

If only our gov. & edu institutions are so enlightened!
Can they make a U-turn after heading down the wrong direction for so long?

And now with Sc. & Tech. Ministry also seeming to go the wrong way; with the 
CPB, will Malaysia be less and less competitive in the global economy?

Will we be "...left behind in the e-dust of the K-economy"?

Regds. Boh
Sent from my iPhone.

On 11/01/2012, at 3:17 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah  wrote:

> More stuff happening in the UK
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign
> 
> I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi 
> magazine ?
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah  
> wrote:
> 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
> 
> Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons
> Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under plans 
> for open source curriculum
> The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically overhauled, 
> with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for new lessons 
> designed by industry and universities, Michael Gove will announce on 
> Wednesday.
> 
> In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum in 
> Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored out 
> of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers".
> 
> Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in computer 
> science by giving schools the freedom to use teaching resources designed with 
> input from leading employers and academics, in changes that will come into 
> effect this September.
> 
> The announcement follows pressure from businesses critical of a shortage of 
> computer-literate recruits – a deficit highlighted by a Guardian campaign 
> launched this week.
> 
> ICT will remain compulsory and will still be taught at every stage of the 
> curriculum. In a speech to BETT, a trade fair which showcases educational 
> technology, Gove will say Britain should revive the legacy of the 
> mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing by creating a generation of 
> young people able to work at the forefront of technological change.
> 
> He will say: "Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just a 
> few years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum. 
> Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word and 
> Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D 
> computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.
> 
> "By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously covered 
> only in university courses and be writing their own apps for smartphones."
> 
> A consultation on the plans will be launched next week. Ministers are keen to 
> see universities and businesses creating a new computer science GCSE and 
> developing a curriculum that encourages schools to make use of computer 
> science content on the web. IBM and Microsoft are already working on a pilot 
> GCSE curriculum.
> 
> The British Computer Society (BCS) has developed a curriculum for key stages 
> three and four – the years leading up to GCSE – which has had input from 
> Microsoft, Google and Cambridge University.
> 
> In the speech, Gove will set out the government's thinking on computer 
> science and cite its transformational impact on other disciplines.
> 
> He will say: "Twenty years ago, medicine was not an information technology. 
> Now, genomes have been decoded and the technologies of biological engineering 
> and synthetic biology are transforming medicine. The boundary between biology 
> and IT is already blurring into whole new fields, like bioinformatics.
> 
> "Twenty years ago, only a tiny number of specialists knew what the internet 
> was and what it might shortly become. Now billions of people and trillions of 
> cheap sensors are connecting to each other, all over the world – and more 
> come online every minute of every day."
> 
> He will pay tribute to Turing as a hero who "laid the foundation stones on 
> which all modern computing rests".
> 
> The speech will be critical of the failure of existing ICT provision. He will 
> say: "Our school system has not prepared children for this new world. 
> Millions have left school over the past decade without even the basics they 
> need for a decent job. And the current curriculum cannot prepare British 
> students to work at the very forefront of technological change."
> 
> Outlining the changes, he will say: "The traditional approach would have been 
> to keep the programme of study in place for the next four years while we 
> assembled a panel of experts, wrote a new ICT curriculum, spent a fortune on 
> new teacher training, and engaged with exam boards for new ICT GCSEs that 
> would become obsolete almost immediately. We will not be doing that. 
> Technology in schools will no longer be micromanaged by

[osdcmy] Re: UK Schools to Get Open Source Curriculum ?

[Raja Iskandar Shah]

More stuff happening in the UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/series/digital-literacy-campaign

I wonder if Google could support the articles in the upcoming Koperasi
magazine ?



On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah  wrote:

>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons
>
> Michael Gove to scrap 'boring' IT lessons
>
> Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer classes under
> plans for open source curriculum
>
>  The teaching of computer science in school is to be dramatically
> overhauled, with the existing programme of study scrapped to make way for
> new lessons designed by industry and universities, Michael 
> Gove will
> announce on Wednesday.
>
> In a speech, the education secretary will say the existing curriculum in
> Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has left children "bored out
> of their minds being taught how to use Word and Excel by bored teachers".
>
> Instead he will, in effect, create an "open source" curriculum in computer
> science by giving schools  the
> freedom to use teaching resources designed with input from leading
> employers and academics, in changes that will come into effect this
> September.
>
> The announcement follows pressure from businesses critical of a shortage
> of computer-literate 
> recruits
>  –
> a deficit highlighted by a Guardian 
> campaign
>  launched
> this week.
>
> ICT will remain compulsory and will still be taught at every stage of the
> curriculum. In a speech to 
> BETT,
> a trade fair which showcases educational technology, Gove will say Britain
> should revive the legacy of the mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan
> Turing  by creating a
> generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technological
> change.
>
> He will say: "Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just
> a few years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum.
> Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word
> and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write
> simple 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.
>
> "By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously
> covered only in university courses and be writing their own apps for
> smartphones."
>
> A consultation on the plans will be launched next week. Ministers are keen
> to see universities and businesses creating a new computer science GCSE and
> developing a curriculum that encourages schools to make use of computer
> science content on the web. IBM and Microsoft are already working on a
> pilot GCSE curriculum.
>
> The British Computer Society  (BCS) has developed a
> curriculum for key stages three and four – the years leading up to GCSE –
> which has had input from Microsoft, Google and Cambridge University.
>
> In the speech, Gove will set out the government's thinking on computer
> science and cite its transformational impact on other disciplines.
>
> He will say: "Twenty years ago, medicine was not an information
> technology. Now, genomes have been decoded and the technologies of
> biological engineering and synthetic biology are transforming medicine. The
> boundary between biology and IT is already blurring into whole new fields,
> like bioinformatics.
>
> "Twenty years ago, only a tiny number of specialists knew what the
> internet was and what it might shortly become. Now billions of people and
> trillions of cheap sensors are connecting to each other, all over the world
> – and more come online every minute of every day."
>
> He will pay tribute to Turing as a hero who "laid the foundation stones on
> which all modern computing rests".
>
> The speech will be critical of the failure of existing ICT provision. He
> will say: "Our school system has not prepared children for this new world.
> Millions have left school over the past decade without even the basics they
> need for a decent job. And the current curriculum cannot prepare British
> students to work at the very forefront of technological change."
>
> Outlining the changes, he will say: "The traditional approach would have
> been to keep the programme of study in place for the next four years while
> we assembled a panel of experts, wrote a new ICT curriculum, spent a
> fortune on new teacher training, and engaged with exam boards for new ICT
> GCSEs  that would become
> obsolete almost immediately. We will not be doing that. Technology in
> schools will no longer be micromanaged by Whitehall. By withdrawing the
> programme of study,