It has been over a month since it was announced that the ICT curriculum faced review, and I still don’t feel like it is being done well. The overwhelming majority of press coverage, including articles where industry experts are being questioned, seems to offer only two options: keep the current curriculum, or replace it with computer science. Surely those aren’t the only two choices…Continue Reading
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23DecThe National Curriculum Review: first thoughts
There has been an understandably frenzied response to the initial findings of the National Curriculum Review expert panel report that was released earlier this month, particularly from ICT teachers who are facing the prospect of their subject being marginalised, or others who think it will be removed altogether. But are the report findings all bad news for ICT teachers?Continue Reading
27NovCritical thinking in the curriculum
Critical thinking was once the purview of classicists & philosophers, but with those subjects still being squeezed out of schools that view them as elitist or irrelevant in the modern world, where does critical thinking fit?Continue Reading
24NovWhat would your curriculum look like?
In September I moved to the beautiful island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. I recently started work on revamping the ICT curriculum, and am currently looking at a blank piece of paper surrounded by piles of reading material. What would you do?Continue Reading
08DecWhat ICT can be
As part of a presentation at an SSAT seminar entitled ‘How to make ICT the most popular subject in your school’, here is my presentation – pushing ICT lessons beyond their original definition as we look at the history of war, from an ICT perspective.Continue Reading
28NovICT as the Muses’ birdcage
In the 4th century BC the Ptolemies of Alexandria began throwing money at the arts. They did not make the same distinctions between fields of study as we do today, and housed scholars from all disciplines together in the “Muses’ birdcage,” blurring the lines between otherwise disparate disciplines. I think this should be the role of ICT in the modern curriculum.Continue Reading
