On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Jason White wrote:
It was more than this when I was in secondary school. Then, at least, everybody did a little programming (in BASIC or Logo). Some of us learned Pascal too.
But that was at a time when computers barely figured in everyday life. And you had to program to use computers.
These days IT is everywhere, as a car is.
But it does not make car mechanics a mandatory subject.. Most people use a car, and do not have any interest to figure out how it works.
I think that everyone should know the basic concepts of how a car works. Being able to actually fix a car isn't a useful skill for most people. But knowing how a car works can be a matter of life and death.
The curriculum, as far as I know, describes a minimum "core" of subjects to be taught everywhere in Australia.
It does not stop a school to offer more, and a student to choose other subjects when interested.
I haven't been following the situation much in Australia. Is it becoming like the US where the pressure to cram for frequent tests uses up all the available time and prevents teaching anything else? Do schools still concentrate on trying to get the sub-standard students to complete the standard curriculum in the standard class (which is never going to work) and ignore the students with an IQ above 100? On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Roger <arelem@bigpond.com> wrote:
wrong information are so out of date it's embarrassing. At xmas just gone she rewrote one of the recommended books to something more relevant.
She writes her own class tutorials because none exist. She observes that there is no link between years 11/12 and university year1/ 2.
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