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On 26 August 2010 11:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> 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... > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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