GCSE IT must always be done the boring and monotonous way, instead of the fun and interesting way that the markers can't be bothered to learn it properly<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 August 2010 09:37, Matthew Daubney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@daubers.co.uk">matt@daubers.co.uk</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 Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote:<br> </div><div class="im">> or nearly that, anyway.....<br> ><br> > Article:<br> > Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech<br> > Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook:<br> ><br> > <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/</a><br> ><br> > 'exam results have shown computing subjects are failing to grab kids'<br> > attention'<br> ><br> > Could it be that a strong bias towards proprietary products is not<br> > inspiring students?<br> > Would more appreciation of Free Software in education enable better<br> > use of talents?<br> ><br> > Express your views to the Royal Society soon.<br> > <a href="http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/" target="_blank">http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/</a><br> ><br> > --<br> > alan cocks<br> > Ubuntu user<br> ><br> <br> </div>My experience of GCSE IT was that it was "This is Microsoft Word, write<br> a 2 page document including a table, a graphic and a footnote." which is<br> _not_ what IT should be about. I lost _huge_ amounts of marks in one<br> part because the project was "Create 4 linked webpages in Microsoft<br> Front Page blah blah blah" which would have been a nightmare for any<br> sane person to maintain, so I wrote it in PHP with a SQL backend and<br> none of the markers understood it :(<br> <br> IT should be more about computers less about office work!<br> <br> -Matt Daubney<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> <br> --<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>