Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (171 mails)

["Darren Smith" <darren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> 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.

>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.

>ICT has absolutely no relationship with Computer Studies,
> except that a computer may used as a tool.

Agreed.

Darren Smith