Dianne Your real experiences may be key to the Royal Society's investigation, I do hope you can seriously consider contributing. if nothing else, almost a straight copy and paste of what you are saying here is information which paints a valuable picture to them. And they may be getting very different stories from vested interests.
best regards alan On 26/08/10 09:16, Dianne Reuby wrote: > My daughter had 5 IT teachers in one year - one took their coursework to > Australia when he left, so she got very low marks. The next year I told > her brother to email his coursework to me from school - needless to say, > he didn't bother, the system crashed, no backup, no coursework, he too > got very low marks. For my third child, it was very much a case of > "You've got a free period - go and teach GCSE IT!" And this was in a > school which is one of the very best in our town, and which I'd > recommend to anyone - except for IT. > > And yet it can be exciting, school visits love looking at the old > machines, looking at how components and machines work, putting pieces > together, learning about the impact on business, on our social lives. > > Darn, this has turned into a rant. But I do find it so depressing! > > Dianne > > 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' > > > -- Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
