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									<description><![CDATA[As a teacher in a high-performing selective school the question of &#8216;programming&#8217; is raised a lot. I agree with a lot of the comments in the press recently and raised by many people (including this article). I feel that I could certainly incorporate more computer science in the curriculum and make it more rigorous for [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[I am a primary school teacher with responsibility for ICT and we expect our children to come out at Year 6 with proficiency in basic IT &#8211; turning on/off and finding their way around a desktop, laptop, whatever version of Windows may be running; saving and finding their work on a large network; using a [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[I completed my IT GCSE in 3 days. All I basically had to do was make a table in word and link a few excel cells together. It was far too easy. After leaving school I taught myself (using everyone’s friend Google) small amounts of HTML, worked out how to operate windows 7 and the [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louisekidney]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hi Jodie &#8220;Build a website because you are enabling a community to discuss issues around the world in your geography lesson – not because you are building a web page because it says so in the ICT curriculum.&#8221; This is a really really good point. Tech is embedded everywhere in our daily lives, from pin [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[jodiecollins]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[As a primary teacher specialising in ICT it is a frustrating world. I know plenty of teachers who, like me, work hard to embed ICT skills across the curriculum for children from the second they enter the school aged 3. We work tirelessly to create exciting, innovative lessons where we can build on the skills [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@tony &#8211; I think for ICT to be embedded into the curriculum in the same way that mathematics is, there would need to be an acknowledgement from somewhere that like arithmetic, a skill used in every day life, so are some of the skills in ICT. I have friends whose children have email accounts at [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[tonydouglas]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hi Ben I can see why it would appear as two ideological positions. From my own point of view, I suspect it might actually be turning into one ! I have a gradually growing conviction that we are achieving great things *despite* the tools available rather than *because* of them. And I think that the [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[benosteen]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Tony and @Steve You are defending your own viewpoints as if the other was coming from an idealogical opposite point of view: from general fundamentals to specifics, from proper progression of ideas to &#8216;skip to the interesting parts&#8217;. I think that we can all agree that without making the fundamentals of computer theory interesting, we [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[tonydouglas]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hi Steve, I seem to remember a quote from the Jesuits along the lines of, &#8220;Give me the child at seven and I will show you the man&#8221;. Good habits start young. If we rush off into teaching kids whatever the current fads are, they&#8217;ll be stuck with habits and idioms of those fads until [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[steve]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Tony &#8211; some very fair points you make. Yes, learning a discipline can be boring, but my point was that it would have been *very* easy for them to make it more interesting. An extremely basic example, instead of a square on a squiggly line to represent an undamped spring, it could have easily been [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[tonydouglas]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Steve &#8211; lots of points to respond to in there&#8230; &#8220;I then did Mechanical Engineering at university, which was one of the most infuriatingly dull things I’ve ever done. Engineering is (for the most part) inherently interesting, but actually *learning* it is something else. It’s “rip your eyes out of your skull” difficult, and the [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[steve]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[I posted the majority of this comment on another post on the matter, but feel it sits just as well here The UK education system has more wide-ranging issues than inspiring the next generation of computer scientists. When I was at school in the early 00′s, students (in the top sets) would literally set fire [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@luke &#8211; I understand. But from the post beneath yours I feel that there is frustration being expressed at the lack of alternative outlet anywhere for those who enter year 11 with comprehensive understandings of binary or code. There needs to be a parallel framework &#8211; there used to be a &#8216;gifted&#8217; student stream to [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Henry Moulton]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Very good post. I&#8217;m 17 and I dropped out of ICT GCSE because it was the lamest course that I could have ever taken. The coursework assignment was to make a timetable rota for staff at a cinema. It was dull to say the least. I&#8217;m actually the co-organiser of a conference in London in [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[lukejones]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[I think what we need to remember is that this is only GCSE level IT – something most of these people forget. The GCSE courses are relatively short, with very little time to teach students so they&#8217;re not going to be very in depth and, to be fair to schools, it does teach kids how to [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@adrianshort &#8211; agree. I&#8217;d still argue setting a secure password is a life skill though, not a &#8216;you should only know this if you&#8217;re vaguely interested in IT&#8217; skill. @harryharold posted a link to a different syllabus on Twitter which looked a little more like what you&#8217;re talking about &#8211; apparently the school offering it [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[Back again, to be the crusty old moaner in the corner First, some replies to replies. @Nathaniel &#8211; I apologise if I wasn&#8217;t clear enough; I didn&#8217;t mean the current courses concentrate on programming. I meant that there is an idea around that teaching programming is somehow worthwhile, important and valuable. Sadly, in the grander [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to learn to use basic office applications and general computer literacy. I&#8217;ve got no idea which course would be best for them. IT, business, whatever. What&#8217;s needed beyond this is a creative computing course. Something that combines elements of computer science, maths, physics, art and design. It should be assessed 100% on portfolio [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[@emma &#8211; Thank you lady. You were the inspiration for this article in posting an email from someone saying they&#8217;d found a GCSE too secretarial. I&#8217;m not sure if links work on here but the post is: Lazy Layabout Teens]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[As someone who has experience the IT syllabus from all angles: As a student learning it at GCSE, and IT Technician supporting teachers and students as they learn it, and even having taught a lesson to students at that level; I can say this about IT in the UK&#8217;s curriculum: It gives you almost no [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[emmamulqueeny]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Ther eis quite a lot of action around this topic. A wiki here http://codingforkids.org/wiki/Main_Page with lots of good links and information, an e-petition http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/teach-our-kids-to-code-e-petition/ We are losing our coding kids to the rest of the world, those who have taught themselves see no reason to reinvest back in their own economy when they have had [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[@haydoni Actually, to be fair, ICT was a Necessary evil for me in Year 7, as the computers in my primary school were severely lacking. For crying out loud, you were lucky if you managed to get permission to go on the internet!!]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[@haydoni &#8211; Instead of the situation at the moment where everyone is being exhorted to store data in &#8216;the cloud&#8217; with no comprehension of what is and isn&#8217;t appropriate data to be stored there. I am guessing the IT GCSE&#8217;s from all providersare not mentioning IAAS at all. And that&#8217;s dangerous.]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[@Jack You definitely do not need an ICT GCSE to go into business, or even to take business studies at A-level. I&#8217;m led to believe that forty years ago many schools taught &#8220;secretary skills&#8221;, which included such things as touch typing on typewriters. The ICT GCSE has replaced this in all but name. Computer Science [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[As someone who sat the very first GCSEs back in the late 80s, I can add that it seems not much has changed. Back then, the GCSE &#8220;Computer Studies&#8221; syllabus was basic to say the least. Nathaniel&#8217;s comments are very similar to my own experiences; I spent a lot of time playing games of course, [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Reading all these comments brings me to another conclusion. If we are teaching &#8216;sheep&#8217; where is &#8216;thinking outside the box&#8217; taught? It seems to me coding a bunch of off curriculum stuff is a flag that someone has the qualities this government has acknowledged we need, not only in the private sector but the public [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[barry]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Nathanial &#8211; you wrote &#8220;when I put weeks worth of code into a full ajax portfolio, my teacher didnt care&#8221; and that&#8217;s the whole crux of the problem IMHO. If the student doesn&#8217;t &#8216;fit the mould&#8217; of the narrow coursework created then they are effectively classed as troublemakers, certainly not encouraged to think out of [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Bromley]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Nathaniel I may have studied under a different exam board to you then, my course didn&#8217;t even mention a website, ours was all based around databases and spreadsheets. People who want to work in business *need* to take IT / ICT though, since many schools don&#8217;t offer a solely business course, and IT is the [...]]]></description>
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									<description><![CDATA[I agree, IT needs to be merged with business, and offer a completely separate computing course at GCSE. @Tony You&#8217;ve got it completely wrong, and as a student currently studying this course, I can say, without a doubt, programming has not come into it once, not even in the slightest. @Jack as @Sam said, making [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@nathaniel &#8211; apologies for not replying last night, I couldn&#8217;t see your comment. I suspect in the future you will be one of the parents whose child, should things stay the same, will not be sitting the IT GCSE. Which is a shame, you&#8217;ve obviously got a tonne of passion and talent in &#8216;IT&#8217; but [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[beth]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Having completed my GCSE in ICT last year i can safely say it was one of the most boring things I&#8217;ve ever done, it was boring because i could do everything and learnt nothing. There were people in my class, however, who could barely turn a computer on, this is why i think ICT (and [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Bromley]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Nathaniel Props to you for taking up coding at such a young age, it&#8217;ll certainly give you a head start if you choose to do computing at A Level. Even if you keep it as a hobby it&#8217;ll remain useful. Your teacher should atleast show some praise towards you, an entire ajax portfolio certainly deserves [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Bromley]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Sam GCSE students aren&#8217;t taught to make a basic website anyway, but you say that &#8216;full computing&#8217; is not being taught at GCSE level ICT, but does it really need to be? People who take the ICT course at GCSE level are likely expecting something more exciting and indepth than spreadsheets, but what they are [...]]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[louise]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[@Sam &#8211; I agree with the sense of fun and enjoyment &#8211; very much. I remember vividly a science lesson (I only did Single Award, whole separate world of pain) where someone strung a piece of string down a field and shot a rocket along it. I hated Science but I never forgot that lesson. [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Oct 0:25:27 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[samhutchings]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[There has been a change towards merging IT and Business Studies into one subject, as evidenced in some schools. The issues lies in the IT being taught in schools being applied IT, instead of the full computing, etc, that our country is starting to lack. Whilst some of the stuff taught in IT is valid, [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Oct 0:22:29 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[nathanielhiggins]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Hi there. I&#8217;m a 14 year old studying the exact course you just mentioned. I&#8217;m also a young coder. I can vouch that there is very little support for someone of my age who knows more about a computer then how to make a pretty spreadsheet. Infact, when I put weeks worth of code into [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Oct 0:21:17 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[tonydouglas]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[The thing that depresses me most is the focus on &#8220;programming&#8221; and &#8220;coding&#8221;. IT is about programming the same way accountancy is about arithmetic. What&#8217;s really needed is to get the next generation a proper understanding of *data*. What it is, what it&#8217;s not, what you can and can&#8217;t do with it. To misuse a [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 29 Oct 0:09:34 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Bromley]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[(It does need serious revamping or atleast updating however.)]]></description>
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									<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Bromley]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[Whilst I agree on the most part, the IT GCSE is still relevant. Although it doesn&#8217;t teach students about &#8216;modern&#8217; technology, it does teach them in the field of databases, spreadsheets, and businesses. The subject is important in that respect, and will surely help students get into business sections of many industries. Perhaps &#8216;Business Studies&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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									<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 28 Oct 23:36:16 +0100]]></pubDate>
									<dc:creator><![CDATA[samhutchings]]></dc:creator>
									<description><![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s idea of IT teaching is beyond a joke. Students are taught one platform, normally Windows, whilst the other&#8217;s are ignored. (Most students don&#8217;t know Linux exists, or how a Mac works, let alone how to use them in real life.) The world of IT has changed, but the way it has taught, and [...]]]></description>
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