[Year 12 SofDev] Re: Re: Industry practice - tertiarylinks (MarkKelly)

[Margaret Lawson]

I am enjoying this discussion and I agree with Adrian that there does 
need to be a bit of social commentary in our IT courses. How can you 
teach security and not talk about ethics?

But I have been pondering this thought ...

I wonder if there is any link between schools dropping IT as a formal 
subject in the lower levels of Secondary School (because it is *so* well 
integrated throughout the school) and IT enrolments? I know that I have 
found it hard to convince students to enrol in a Year 9 or 10 elective 
if they have not experienced IT as a curriculum or experienced the 
teacher teaching it.  And I know the "integrated ICT" argument, but at 
the end of the day an integrated ICT unit is *very* different from a 
well thought out IT curriculum. Schools need both and I think that there 
is room for both - isn't there?

Just a thought ...

:-)

Margaret