[LINK] Fwd: [Oz-teachers] UK to scrap boring IT lessons

[Brenda Aynsley]

gday and happy new year

I thought some of you might be interested in this .. haven't read it per 
se, but picked up on the 'open source curriculum'?

cheers
brenda

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Subject: [Oz-teachers] UK to scrap boring IT lessons
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:49:00 +1030
From: Paul Shirren <shirro at shirro.com>
Reply-To: Professional community for teachers 
<oz-teachers at rite.ed.qut.edu.au>
To: Professional community for teachers <oz-teachers at rite.ed.qut.edu.au>

UK Education Secretary Michael Gove announces UK schools to scrap boring
IT lessons. Schools to be given freedom to run cutting-edge computer
classes under plans for open source curriculum.

"Imagine the dramatic change which could be possible in just a few
years, once we remove the roadblock of the existing ICT curriculum.
Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use
Word and Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to
write simple 2D computer animations using an MIT tool called Scratch.

"By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously
covered only in university courses and be writing their own apps for
smartphones."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/11/michael-gove-boring-it-lessons

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