Ben Williamson’s constructive and justifiably irate article ‘Coding for What?’posted in the MirandaNet Blog doubtless resonates with many former ICT teachers in England. His description captures how it seemed to many observers and participants: a frantic, ideologically driven, and peremptory …
Coding for what? Lessons from computing in the curriculum
Faculty of Social Science, University of Stirling This article was first published in the 2017 summer edition of the Naace Advancing Education Journal edited by Christina Preston. You can find out about Naace here. www.naace.co.uk Summary The subject of …
An interview concerning the scrapping of ICT
A guest post reproduced from Terry Freedman’s website© The Government in England has decided to get rid of the ICT — Information and Communication Technology — qualifications at GCSE and ‘A’ Level. (For the uninitiated, those are the school-leaving qualifications …