The new National Curriculum (UK) has arrived and with it a huge conceptual change in ICT, now called Computing.
Technology evolves constantly, changing our way of life, the world around us, and more importantly allowing us to drive the change. (Yeah I know, it's the typical thing everyone says...)
The students of today, adults of tomorrow, need much more than just a technical knowledge on how to USE devices and programs. Much of what they learn today will be outdated in just a few years. A deeper knowledge is needed. The type that gives tools and enough insight to help them adapt and learn whatever new technology awaits: It's how devices and programs WORK internally, and even more, how to CREATE their own devices and programs.
Computer Science, my friends, Computer Science.
That's what I studied in University, where I learned programming for the first time, and in the last year I had lots of fun programming Lego Mindstorms.
Believe it or not now students start learning those things at school... since primary... at a level suitable for their capabilities, of course, but at school nevertheless.
Big changes. Big challenges. Big horizons.
I could try to explain it further, but why try if a great communicator already did it and it's on YouTube? Lets hear Simon Humphrey (Computing at School Co-Ordinator) on why we needed a change from ICT to Computing.
Thanks for watching.
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