On Monday 01 December 2003 07:38, Darren Smith wrote:
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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.
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