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On 21/10/12 14:08, tom wrote: > On 21/10/12 13:36, Tom Brough wrote: >> On 21/10/12 09:55, tom wrote: >>> On 21/10/12 09:35, Tom Brough wrote: >>>> http://www.publicservice.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=21191 >>>> >>>> >>>> While I welcome the UK governments shift from teaching narrow ICT >>>> skills >>>> to teaching Computer Science at secondary level (well its a start) and >>>> the cash injection they have put aside for it . Did they have to go >>>> and >>>> talk to Microsoft about it? >>>> >>>> Is it just my celebrated paranoia or is this like the fenderation >>>> asking >>>> the borg to train its star fleet cadets? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I cant find a mention of MS in the article. >>> Tom te tom te tom >>> >> Sorry I read several articles on the same story but only included the >> one that specifically didn't mention the Microsoft Involvement. Here is >> the BBC take on the same story. >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20003327 >> >> > I'll wait and see what the courses contain - I cant imagine MS > holding back the truth forever. > Tom te tom te tom > Well kids will get the Pi anyway, what is important is as adults we support and encourage them and if we can help with anything even Linux issues we do so, Find the kids who are interested and support / encourage them all you can, even better find a way to bring them together so they have peer support and they are perfectly capable of helping each other, then get em to show their teacher what the are doing, or get em to build a cluster and when this new curriculum starts they can ask to do some nice complex stuff like build a supercluster to (it's been done with the PI) they understand it, and their teacher will either go with it or run a mile, :) Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq