Didn't the original Mech Warrior have a proprietary controller (On a side note the new one will have an optional HOTAS controller as well and it looks awesome)? Both the Guitar Hero and Rock band also franchises put a dent in that theory as well.
Why does this remind me of Nightfall? *SPOILERS* The scientists of the day in that book discover the fossil record of previous civilisations just prior to the cycle repeating itself, think I'm going to go build a fall out shelter.
Actually the science teacher was one of the best I had, she was enthusiastic and knowledgeable... there were times when she might not know something ridiculously specific but she'd usually try to find out the answers for us as soon as she could and me and my mates did ask some rather ridiculously pointless questions so feels fair to cut her a little slack.
I'll never forget the day we pointed out she'd positioned the Sodium and Water experiment right under the smoke detector though, never seen a teacher jump on a desk, with a book to waft the detector with, faster in my life (did say she was enthusiastic though).
I didn't realise that there was a test as I haven't started applying for mine yet. I was basing what I knew on having a Science teacher with an English degree (at least that was what I heard maybe that wasn't true). Thanks for the information. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was in Year 10 and definitely not for the high pay check, just liked the feeling of helping some one learn something.
I can totally agree that you probably do know more than a fresh CS grad, but my point was that if you don't have experience in the field that a CS degree should be the minimum requirement for a ICT based PGCE surely.
P.S. I also can't be expected to have 20 years of practical experience when I'm not even 21 yet.
Tbh I think it's almost criminal how the PGCE currently operates. That you can teach a subject with out even a related degree just seems wrong. I hope it changes by the time I start my PGCE but I doubt it. I'm a comp sci student planning to go onto teach at a Secondary Level but I didn't realise how few teachers had actual comp sci backgrounds or even experience until I started doing placements in schools. Hearing a Head of ICT say he hates programming really was a shocking thing to hear.
The Raspberry Pi as a tool for teaching Computer Science is definitely high up there on value. Teaching it in the closed system of Windows while still completely possible can lead to some things having to be missed, due to closed administration policies and such. If you're using the Windows machines to store important work and run software used by other subjects then you can't simply have a class of Computing students come in and start re-writing the Operating System (not that they could in windows of course).
The Raspberry Pi however you can do what you like to the OS, you can show the actual way the system handles memory and processor cycles in a much more in depth way and if a student breaks it, you simply format and stick a back up on it which takes minutes rather than the hours that a Windows PC might require. A few decades ago the Computing in Schools was taught on BBC Micros, which had almost no abstraction from what was actually going on (there was some obviously but it wasn't hard to remove that as well), you could even write programs to run from the BIOS chip.
The current state of ICT education is a very MS Office dominated course of how to use a word processor and create excel spreadsheets. Something that perhaps might be best taught in other subjects, I'm not sure. I can see an argument for teaching that stuff, but at the moment it overly dominates the curriculum and it's pretty much what ends up being taught when all you have are common office desktops.
How has Chrome been a failure? I'm genuinely interested not trying to troll. I thought it did what it was meant to, collect even more usable data on search criteria by user and deploy new web technologies as fast as possible. I know it's probably telling Google everything they need to know about me to sell me anything but I still use it for some reason.
I still think the lack of a 64 bit version of flash when I got my first 64 bit computer was what made me swap from Firefox. Chrome's built in flash support was ever so slightly more stable than vanilla flash in 32 or 64 bit Firefox. Since haven't had reason to swap back, Google Sync has kept me firmly in Chrome ( I think Firefox has something similar now but haven't looked).
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Didn't the original Mech Warrior have a proprietary controller (On a side note the new one will have an optional HOTAS controller as well and it looks awesome)? Both the Guitar Hero and Rock band also franchises put a dent in that theory as well.
Why does this remind me of Nightfall? *SPOILERS* The scientists of the day in that book discover the fossil record of previous civilisations just prior to the cycle repeating itself, think I'm going to go build a fall out shelter.
Actually the science teacher was one of the best I had, she was enthusiastic and knowledgeable... there were times when she might not know something ridiculously specific but she'd usually try to find out the answers for us as soon as she could and me and my mates did ask some rather ridiculously pointless questions so feels fair to cut her a little slack.
I'll never forget the day we pointed out she'd positioned the Sodium and Water experiment right under the smoke detector though, never seen a teacher jump on a desk, with a book to waft the detector with, faster in my life (did say she was enthusiastic though).
I didn't realise that there was a test as I haven't started applying for mine yet. I was basing what I knew on having a Science teacher with an English degree (at least that was what I heard maybe that wasn't true). Thanks for the information. I've wanted to be a teacher since I was in Year 10 and definitely not for the high pay check, just liked the feeling of helping some one learn something.
I can totally agree that you probably do know more than a fresh CS grad, but my point was that if you don't have experience in the field that a CS degree should be the minimum requirement for a ICT based PGCE surely.
P.S. I also can't be expected to have 20 years of practical experience when I'm not even 21 yet.
Tbh I think it's almost criminal how the PGCE currently operates. That you can teach a subject with out even a related degree just seems wrong. I hope it changes by the time I start my PGCE but I doubt it. I'm a comp sci student planning to go onto teach at a Secondary Level but I didn't realise how few teachers had actual comp sci backgrounds or even experience until I started doing placements in schools. Hearing a Head of ICT say he hates programming really was a shocking thing to hear.
The Raspberry Pi as a tool for teaching Computer Science is definitely high up there on value. Teaching it in the closed system of Windows while still completely possible can lead to some things having to be missed, due to closed administration policies and such. If you're using the Windows machines to store important work and run software used by other subjects then you can't simply have a class of Computing students come in and start re-writing the Operating System (not that they could in windows of course).
The Raspberry Pi however you can do what you like to the OS, you can show the actual way the system handles memory and processor cycles in a much more in depth way and if a student breaks it, you simply format and stick a back up on it which takes minutes rather than the hours that a Windows PC might require. A few decades ago the Computing in Schools was taught on BBC Micros, which had almost no abstraction from what was actually going on (there was some obviously but it wasn't hard to remove that as well), you could even write programs to run from the BIOS chip.
The current state of ICT education is a very MS Office dominated course of how to use a word processor and create excel spreadsheets. Something that perhaps might be best taught in other subjects, I'm not sure. I can see an argument for teaching that stuff, but at the moment it overly dominates the curriculum and it's pretty much what ends up being taught when all you have are common office desktops.
How has Chrome been a failure? I'm genuinely interested not trying to troll. I thought it did what it was meant to, collect even more usable data on search criteria by user and deploy new web technologies as fast as possible. I know it's probably telling Google everything they need to know about me to sell me anything but I still use it for some reason.
I still think the lack of a 64 bit version of flash when I got my first 64 bit computer was what made me swap from Firefox. Chrome's built in flash support was ever so slightly more stable than vanilla flash in 32 or 64 bit Firefox. Since haven't had reason to swap back, Google Sync has kept me firmly in Chrome ( I think Firefox has something similar now but haven't looked).