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Learn more. See summer support. Bugeting finances existed long before spreadsheets existed, and knowing how to set up and use a spreadsheet does not teach you budgeting.
However, Business studies might. Knowing how to use a web design application does not lead to well designed pages — but learning about Graphic Design should do. Good web pages are designed by designers who can use the tools, not ICT people who can use the tools. Trawl the web, you will see what I mean. Maybe it is not much, but that is my experience in teaching.
During these eight years, I have seen that knowledge of how to use a tool is nothing when it comes to the skill of how to apply that knowledge to a certain scenario in a creative way. I have to agree with Tom, that learning some MS Office applications and Dreamweaver, or even a programming language, does not make you a specialist in the field, it does not make you a software developer or a web developer.
Solving problems using IT tools is more important a skill than some knowledge about a tool. I always tell my students that from the first year in primary school till the day that finish a degree course they learn two things: — How to learn. They should be able to master on their own whatever is thrown at them at work. I want to teach advertisers how to use HTML5 to implement their ideas about an advert.
I want to teach a creative designer how to use IT tools to their benefit. I want to teach programming to a software developer who has ideas about a system or a game and knows the algorithm of the system or the game. That is why I try to teach them concepts and logical steps. The ecaxt techniocal knowledge of configuring comething or the syntax of a language can be forgotten after some time, but the concepts and the logiucal steps will remain with them and they can research them self to regain that knowledge.
Everything is on the Internet. You only have to have the skills to find it. So Tom, I am with you in this debate. We teach high level skills using proprietary and open source software including HTML and web design, graphic design , how to use advanced spreadsheet and database tools, research skills, E- safety along with all the other Social, Moral, Spiritual and cultural issues surrounding the use of ICT.
Yes I agree the ICT needs to be reinforced across the curriculum and this is again something that is promoted at my school but let us not assume that all teachers regardless of subject are ICT specialists. Therefore who will teach these young people the high end ICT skills that will be needed for both university and work.
This is an extremely short sighted decision by the government and one which I very much fear they will eventually come to regret and we will have the all too familiar U turn. By the way I also teach computer science and love it so this is by no means a rant by a disgruntled ICT teacher.
In some cases, this view may have been correct, and the course may have spent significant curriculum time on designing PowerPoint presentations.
However, delivered well, providing valuable curriculum time to cover topics such as fake news, ethics concerning digital technology and the risks plus benefits of big data. It also provided useful generalist IT skills across a variety of operating systems, office applications and productivity suites.
The removal of GCSE ICT has meant that such topics are now at the whim of individual schools to decide when — or if — they might be addressed. The shift of curriculum emphasis towards computing and programmatic thinking was meant to help fill the skills gap which has been growing in the digital and cyber workspaces.
This attempt is, in some ways, laudable — however, it failed to take into consideration the greater specialism which a computing or computer programming-based course involves.
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