[LINK] Education system doesn't support NBN

[Marghanita da Cruz]

The curriculum is one aspect, the other is competently resourcing the 
implementation.

I recently heard a story, that teachers are complaining because it takes 
their class too long to turn the page on their computers. Apparently, the 
CEO (catholic education office) and Telstra (their broadband provider) have 
tried to resolve the issue to no avail - and the students and staff 
struggle on.

Will the NBN solve this problem or will NBN simply replace Telstra in the 
bog. Should a class of 30 be all trying to turn the page at the same time?

Marghanita
stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> If people are concerned about the 'dumbing down' of ICT skills may one 
> suggest you make your thoughts known to ACARA. These folk are creating
> our new Australian school national curriculum. 
> 
> Of course from personal experience your voice will certainly be ignored.
> 
> ACARA does NOT regard ICT skills as a 'core' learning area. So, soon in 
> every Australian school, *using* ICT (not studying ICT) will become the
> whole focus of school ICT education, using all their expensive machines.
> 
> That is, ICT is simply another 'general capability' across all subjects
> without any requirement for children study ICT. Simply taught to use it.
> 
> If you send your objections to this now, in a few years, when we depend
> on other countries, you can say I told you so. I hope it's not too late.
> 
> One example? Go to <http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au> and, search
> on ICT. Most of the very few ICT references are for verifying resources
> in the History syllabus. This should turn out many competent programers.
> 
> Now, it's obvious ACARA will not re-consider this situation. One slight
> satisfaction is that ACARA will be vilified for this in decades to come,
> when, of course, all the 40 year old ACARA curriculum-experts whom have
> never personally studied ICT, in any manner what-so-ever, have departed.
> 
> Bernard forwards ..
> 
> Education system doesn't support NBN: Caelli
> 
> Karen Dearne  Australian IT  May 17, 2011
> <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/education-system-doesnt-
> support-nbn-caelli/story-e6frgakx-1226057628313> (snipped)
> 
> AUSTRALIA is not equipped to deal with the National Broadband Network 
> due to past "dumbing down" of IT education and resulting lack of trained 
> professionals, security expert Bill Caelli warns.
> 
> "There is a crisis in network education that needs to be addressed now," 
> he told an Australian Computer Society session at the AusCERT conference 
> on the Gold Coast.
> 
> "The security of the nation depends on network security because today, 
> everything is networked.
> 
> "The federal and state governments have got to recognise that this is a 
> crisis," the Queensland University of Technology IT security expert said.
> 
> Professor Caelli said the criticality of the situation was demonstrated 
> by the OECD, which two years ago reported that more than 50 per cent of 
> the GDP of modern western countries was dependent on networked IT systems.
> 
> --
> 
> Cheers people,
> Stephen Loosley
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