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A 'Radical Manifesto' For Computer Teaching In English Schools

Posted by timothy on from the it-clicks-the-mouse-or-else-it-gets-the-hose-again dept.

00_NOP writes "Everybody (or almost everybody) in England agrees that computing teaching to kids in high school is broken. In response the government promised a radical overhaul and a new curriculum. But then last week it was discovered the government had scrapped the bit of the education department that would develop any such curriculum. Not to be deterred, John Naughton, the Cambridge University academic who wrote the Short History of the Future, has now published his own 'radical' manifesto on how computing should be taught."

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  1. /. should have it's pink style today by roman_mir · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shouldn't /. have pink 'OMG PONNIES' style today?

    I expect a ton of stories, and I immediately treat all of them with suspicion and probably for a good reason. I won't bother reading TFAs either. If /. wants to be taken seriously today, it has do to do something extraordinary. For all I care today is a day when /. clowns are especially rampant.

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