Ian Grove-Stephensen voices his objections to an English decision to replace the teaching of 'ICT' in its schools with the teaching of 'computer science', influenced, he says, by a speech from Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. "So we have eight months in which to retrain the 80% of ICT teachers who have no background in comp-sci, to write a new curriculum and devise new examinations – something that requires a lead time of at least two years." I guess there's an opportunity there for online and informal learning - and the experience may change the way teachers teach ICT or computer science in the future. (Looking for the silver lining)
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