<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>That's a great article, Roland! I especially love the video and the audio files attached. Worth a look.</div><br><div><div>On 12/01/2012, at 12:14 AM, Roland Gesthuizen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Reading here about how the UK is planning to increase computer programming in schools. It is food for thought, how we currently teach computational thinking or programming in Victorian schools at the junior and senior levels. Interested in your thoughts.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/101425432113707315497/posts/H7KpYkjQWoa">https://plus.google.com/101425432113707315497/posts/H7KpYkjQWoa</a>
Regards Roland</p><p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #eee; padding-left: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><p><a class="diigoAnnotatedLink" href="http://diigo.com/0mdel" title="BBC News - School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme">BBC News - School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme</a></p><ul></ul><ul><li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">"Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he said.
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<li style="line-height:150%;margin-bottom:.6em;">"Children are being forced to learn how to use applications, rather than to make them. They are becoming slaves to the user interface and are totally bored by it," <ul></ul></li></ul></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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