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On Jan 11, 2012 1:59 PM, "Julian Hall" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11/01/2012 13:02, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote:
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>> On Jan 11, 2012 12:47 PM, "Julian Hall" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>> > On 11/01/2012 09:09, Gordon Henderson wrote:
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>> >> Perhaps there is hope after all:
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>> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16493929
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>> >> Gordon
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>> > I'd like to see a GCSE and/or A Level course run along similar lines to my initial HND (I did the two years then topped up with a further year to a BSc as the degree course first two years was identical).
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>> > Combined Programming/Network/Multimedia in the first year, with bits of business and legal (which could be dropped with the assumption they're going to learn that later anyway).
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>> > Second year pick a speciality from the three and complete GCSE with qualification in Computing with Multimedia/Networking/Programming. Or just teach all three to give a rounded grounding in general IT.
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>> > I also totally agree with the comment that you need lecturers with real world experience, or at least teaching use of tools the industry actually is using. The current broken ICT curriculum sounds more like a modified ECDL which is a terrible idea from start to finish (not the ECDL itself, but copying it).
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>> > Julian
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>> The level 3 side of things isn't necessarily that bad - typically the Level 3 BTEC National Diploma follows along the lines you've mentioned, but it's hard to get many students to enjoy programming at level 3 when they've had pretty much no experience of it prior to that.
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>> Grant
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> Fair point.. I'm assuming here (with no academic background) L1 = GCSE/A Level, L2 = OND, L3 = HND? Not that it's important, I take your point that Level 1 should be where the introduction starts. I started programming at 14 in the fourth year (year 10 I think it's called now) so by the time I left school I had 4 or 5 years programming - BBC Basic - behind me and an A Level project that ran into thousands of lines of code. Students need inspiration so perhaps getting a talk from a games/phone app developer while they're still in school would fire their imaginations to want to learn how to do the same.
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> Julian
Level 2 = GCSEs level
Level 3 = A levels level
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