Saturday, 19 January 2008

Will ICT be a subject in its own right?

I overheard the other day someone saying that ICT will soon no longer be a subject in its own right, that it will simply be incorporated into subjects. I guess that this may be due the the fact that many children from a young age are so computer literate that they might not need to learn about it. but surely they have to start some where. I mean that ICT is not a human instinct where people are born knowing how to use it. Perhaps people think that parents will have already taught their children to work with computers which raises the question about the fact that not all parents will be able to have computers and the internet, unless the government gives them out for free.

Maybe this will only be in secondary schools, but even they need to learn. I hear that some schools are teaching the ECDL. I guess this is good as at least the pupils leave with a certificate.

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