Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (171 mails)

[garry saddington <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 December 2003 07:38, Darren Smith wrote:
> --snip-
>
> > What do you mean by "web programming"? I doubt very much if Perl (yuck),
> > PHP, Coldfusion. Miva Mia, Python, C, etc CGI is taught in schools.
>
> Why do you doubt it? I teach PHP and if they kids want to use python or CGI
> then we have the resources for them to do that. I am getting a little
> disshearterend by this thread. It seems people have read the nat strat and
> have misunderstood 2 things.
>
> a) It's not compulsary
> b) if you do teach it you can teach it a different way.

Agreed but I have two points:
a) Can you justify not using the sample materials when Ofsted comes knocking?
b) How hard is your ICT advisor pushing the nat strat?

>
> >So what
> > are we left with? WYSIWYG, drag and drop, HTML editors like FrontPage.
>
> At key stage 3 in the nat strat involves the kids producing a webpage using
> a text editor.
>
> >Now
> > that could hardly be described as "web programming". Wordprocessing,
> > Presentations, etc are definitely the realm of Business Studies and/or
> > Secretarial.
>
> Agreed to a large extend. These *tools* take up very little time in my
> lessons.
However, I am sure that the majority of nat strat teaching does involve these 
tools and the pupils do not have the advantage of a teacher such as yourself. 
I think people on the list are suggesting the norm is not what you do.

>
> >ICT has absolutely no relationship with Computer Studies,
> > except that a computer may used as a tool.
The suggestions seem to me to be pointing to a revival of some sort of 
computer studies in the nat strat.
regards
garry

> Darren Smith