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... -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
