Re: Graduate Teacher Programme - best way to approach it

Dave (from the UK) <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I can't comment, as I have not looked at all the curriculum in detail.
However, I did see some posts several months back by Daniele in
uk.net.web.authoring about writing web pages. I was most unimpressed
with what he had to teach. It was clear the person writing syllabus for
the exam he was teaching did not have a clue.

I thought the fact he was teaching how to write a web page, but it would
not have been put on a web server (only a CD)

Not even that.

But in any case, I think it is necessary to teach Windows, even if the
curriculum could be met with Solaris, Linux or whatever. You can't avoid
the fact Windows is very popular. But personally I would be all for
introducing students to other systems too.

The curriculum and particularly examining boards are very clear about
one thing: pupils should not refer to proprietary products but generic
names (word processor, not Word, spreadsheet application, not Excel, and
so on). Moreover, and particularly at the level at which the computer
systems are used, the skills they learn are very rapidly transferred
between one operating system or application and another.

So there is quite clearly an understanding there that it's not just a
Windows world, and that the kids should be learning to use computers,
word processors and so on, not Windows computers, MS Word, etc.

On the other hand at least one examination scheme spoils it all a bit by
referring to using "WordArt" (in the context of a web page, if I
remember rightly...).

Daniele
.

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