Farewell to ICT? Evolving ICT into Computing
Dec 15, 2015
Session Objectives
• Consider what ICT means today.
• Review the recent Computer Science “noise.”
• Look at the new National Curriculum for Computing.
• Identify the things that stay the same.
• Discuss approaches to the things that are new.
The Computer Science “noise”
Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made.
That is just throwing away your great computing heritage.
The New Curriculum
• What is in a name?
• A step in the right direction?
• Where did ICT go?
• Too much, too soon?
A Step in the Right Direction?
• The way computers work hasn’t changed (and won’t, for a while)!
• Gives a deeper understanding of the tools we use every day.
• Computational (logical) Thinking helps Problem Solving.
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Where did ICT go?
At Key Stage 3, pupils should be taught to:
“create, reuse, revise and repurpose digital
information and content with
attention to design, intellectual property
and audience”
“undertake creative projects that
involve selecting, using, and
combining multiple applications,
preferably across a range of devices,
to achieve challenging goals,
including collecting and analysing
data and meeting the needs of
known users”
A range of devices…
undertake creative projects… preferably across a range of devices, to achieve challenging goals
understand at
least two key
algorithms for
each of sorting
and searching
design, use and evaluate computational abstractions
understand the hardware and
software components that
make up networked
computer systems
Prescriptive Computing Content
use data
structures
such as tables
or arrays
understand simple Boolean logic such as AND, OR and NOT