Pah, I give up. But really, I work in a completely bog standard state comp. No special funding, nothing extra however just a clear IT and computing policy. All our computer science software is free, we chuck it at kids but don't forget that computer science is hard and some want instant ps3 games (they are teenagers after all!). Back in the day you could knock up a zx81 game that was half way passable as an off the shelf tape from WHSmith.
You guys are all into your computers which is brilliant but this thing will not in any way get a typical kid into developing their understanding of computers. What they need are teachers who know what they are on about. The whole IT curriculum is swinging back to computer science so who knows how schools will tackle it. I am lucky as my dept is brilliant and we love playing with new things but this ain't going to sell computing, media centre projects, code monkeying or anything like that to the average 11-16 year old. Sorry to be cynical. And getting this into primary school.....
Still going to buy one though.
You guys are all into your computers which is brilliant but this thing will not in any way get a typical kid into developing their understanding of computers. What they need are teachers who know what they are on about. The whole IT curriculum is swinging back to computer science so who knows how schools will tackle it. I am lucky as my dept is brilliant and we love playing with new things but this ain't going to sell computing, media centre projects, code monkeying or anything like that to the average 11-16 year old. Sorry to be cynical. And getting this into primary school.....
Still going to buy one though.
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