 Jan_Webb:Ok so we have to start with what we have in schools - those developments take time and we need to equip ALL teachers, whatever their background, in order to give learners everywhere a fair chance. So what resources are best going to support EVERYONE to deliver this new curriculum?
Well, there aren't any :( Too much of what is done now is, well, rubbish. Playing about with Powerpoint. One needs quality schemes of work, ideally created for both Open Source and common Commercial Software (e.g. LibreOffice and Word, cross platform Programming tools etc.) to deal with the various components. Not sure what these are. I've always split it in my head into something like ; Office skills, Presentation and Media production skills ; Programming, Control and Electronics Is this too much for one subject ? Is there a case for (say) Office skills, Computing being seperate subjects (as used to be the case) and the Media stuff being part merged into Media Studies, Drama, Art ? My personal POV has always been that we need some sort of panel including real teachers and various representatives of the industries to hack out exactly what we are going to teach and why before we actually think about how to teach it. There's a lot of talk about programming, which isn't as inaccessible as people like to claim, but we can't just draft that onto the current curriculum , there's too much wrong. You could argue that after the trashing of "ICT" by GNVQ, OCR and similar it really needs abandoning.
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