Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> BECTA's Next Generation Learning
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>>> | The Office-era of ICT teaching is for me a metaphor for what is wrong
>>> | with education. Spoon fed training of incomprehending children for a
>>> | future that is nowhere near as fixed as they have been lead to
>>> | believe.
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>>> http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/bectas-next-generation-learning.html
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>> Another few good questions to force down BECTA's thoat.
>> Why did they committ to buying software from a company
>> that is sacking staff? Where is the future in educating to sustain a
>> dying company?
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>> The world uses C as its biggest programming language. How many students
>> leave with practical C experience? The world of work is dominated by
>> C on embedded open systems selling 3 million+ gadgets PER DAY. How
>> mamy students know that its gcc compiler on Linux they to use and are
>> expert at feeding the industry making 1 billion+ embedded gadgets per
>> YEAR with students.
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>> If the answer as a teacher or educator is zero marks, then they can
>> go fsck themselves.
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> Kids are taught how menus in Microsoft Office v.{X} are laid out rather
> than learn anything about computers.
In my humble opinion, kids know a lot more about computers, menus,
settings and shortcuts than any teacher can teach.
It is the teachers that are learning when they teach about menus!
They should be teaching programming languages and making computers
do things as a way of educating because subjects like navigation
and menus are things that are picked up on the way. They don't
need to be recalled from memory in an exam to prove you can operate
a computer because they are features operated through visual cues
and context.
> To make matters worse, taxpayers are
> funding the advertisement and endorsement of a criminal organisation (as
> proven in several continents) and its very poor products that leads to
> mortal damage these days.
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