![]() ![]() Microsoft and Google, along with BCS and its Computing at School working group, and the Royal Academy of Engineering were all involved in the new curriculum. This plays directly in to the complaints of technology companies that the UK has not been producing enough graduates qualified to fill vacancies. Our new curriculum teaches children computer science, information technology and digital literacy: teaching them how to code,and how to create their own programs not just how to work a computer, but how a computer works and how to make it work for you.” “ICT used to focus purely on computer literacy – teaching pupils, over and over again, how to word-process, how to work a spreadsheet, how to use programs already creaking into obsolescence about as much use as teaching children to send a telex or travel in a zeppelin. The education secretary (at the time), Michael Gove, outlined the political rationale for the changes in a speech this January: ![]() The shakeup of computer studies in schools has been trailed for a while, after criticism from ministers and technology companies of the existing ICT curriculum. If you’re one of those parents, here’s a guide to what your children will be studying under the new computing curriculum why there is more of an emphasis on programming skills how teachers have been preparing for the changes and how you can support your children and their schools over the coming months. Similar surveys by tech firms O2 and Ocado Technology yielded similar results: 64% and 65% of parents (respectively) who were unaware of the changes. But it seems many parents will be surprised when their children come home from school talking about algorithms, debugging and Boolean logic.Ī survey of 1,020 parents of 5-18 year-olds in England commissioned by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, found that 60% were unaware or unsure about the changes to the curriculum. This has been coming for a while: the new curriculum was published in September 2013 to fanfare within the technology industry. ![]()
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