here's a good title for a lesson:<div>how to command anon to destroy M$ in 3 easy steps!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 August 2010 11:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gbplinux@gmail.com">gbplinux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"> On 26/08/2010 10:43, Mark Harrison wrote:<br>
> The Royal Society do, at least, appear to have someone on their<br>
> advisory board who seems to understand the problem.<br>
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> From their website:<br>
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> Professor Matthew Harrison, Director of Education at The Royal Academy<br>
> of Engineering said: “Young people have huge appetites for the<br>
> computing devices they use outside of school. Yet ICT and Computer<br>
> Science in school seem to turn these young people off. We need school<br>
> curricula to engage them better if the next generation are to engineer<br>
> technology and not just consume it”.<br>
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</div>Maybe the answer is as posited in the other thread:<br>
Use the other GCSE subjects to teach basic computer and application<br>
USAGE (and preferably not just MS orientated), and change the GCSE IT<br>
course into a programmers/designers course, again preferably Open Source<br>
biased to the pupils can actually write new code, and, probably more<br>
importantly, amend and de-bug currently-used applications etc. You could<br>
put all sorts of things into it like robotics and embedded devices...<br>
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