<div>I have been accepted to participate and contribute CS4HS Sydney, an event at Sydney Uni that is running over the next two days. As I did for our last CS4HS Melbourne event, I hope to get the thumbs up to share #CS4HS twitter posts and work again on a similar Storify article. Here was my last one.</div>
<div> <a href="http://storify.com/rgesthuizen/cs4hs-1">http://storify.com/rgesthuizen/cs4hs-1</a></div><div><br></div><div>As ever, I invite your feedback and collaboration as I reach the cognitive limit of my small brain.</div>
<div> <a href="http://blog.media.mit.edu/2011/10/cognitive-limit-of-organizations.html">http://blog.media.mit.edu/2011/10/cognitive-limit-of-organizations.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Following is an interesting message that I am sharing that was posted to the QSITE community list. It is surprising to read how much traction this is getting in the UK. Wondering when we will catch up.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Quartermaine</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iquartermaine@aisq.qld.edu.au">iquartermaine@aisq.qld.edu.au</a>></span><br>
Date: 5 April 2012 16:40<br><br><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">These two articles out of the UK illustrate two separate issues for the teaching of ICT as a science. I find my myself agreeing with both.<u> </u>I believe students are leaving most Australian schools with less core ICT understanding compared with 15 -20 years ago.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Article 1<br><br><u></u><u></u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Why all our kids should be taught how to code<u></u><u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a growing consensus that the way children in schools are being taught information technology is in need of a radical overhaul. Here John Naughton explains the problem and offers a manifesto for revolutionary action.<br>
<br><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>“….</i><i><span lang="EN">The biggest justification for change is not economic but moral. It is that if we don't act now we will be short-changing our children. They live in a world that is shaped by physics, chemistry, biology and history, and so we – rightly – want them to understand these things. But their world will be also shaped and configured by networked computing and if they don't have a deeper understanding of this stuff then they will effectively be intellectually crippled. They will grow up as passive consumers of closed devices and services, leading lives that are increasingly circumscribed by technologies created by elites working for huge corporations such as Google, Facebook and the like. We will, in effect, be breeding generations of hamsters for the glittering wheels of cages built by Mark Zuckerberg and his kind</span></i><span lang="EN">.”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/why-kids-should-be-taught-code" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/31/why-kids-should-be-taught-code</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Article 2<u></u><u></u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><u></u><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span><u></u></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Why ICT should still be taught in schools and a way to do it properly<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://largerama.creativeblogs.net/2012/04/02/why-ict-should-still-be-taught-in-schools-and-a-way-to-do-it-properly/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">http://largerama.creativeblogs.net/2012/04/02/why-ict-should-still-be-taught-in-schools-and-a-way-to-do-it-properly/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Great article if just for the links provided in it.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Happy Easter <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#end<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#00b050">Ian Quartermaine</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#00b050"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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