On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote: > or nearly that, anyway..... > > Article: > Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech > Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/ > > 'exam results have shown computing subjects are failing to grab kids' > attention' > > Could it be that a strong bias towards proprietary products is not > inspiring students? > Would more appreciation of Free Software in education enable better > use of talents? > > Express your views to the Royal Society soon. > http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/ > > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user >
My experience of GCSE IT was that it was "This is Microsoft Word, write a 2 page document including a table, a graphic and a footnote." which is _not_ what IT should be about. I lost _huge_ amounts of marks in one part because the project was "Create 4 linked webpages in Microsoft Front Page blah blah blah" which would have been a nightmare for any sane person to maintain, so I wrote it in PHP with a SQL backend and none of the markers understood it :( IT should be more about computers less about office work! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
