Should Microsoft design our national curriculum (and does Brian cox know the correct answer to this question?!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707886.stm
ok, so actually, this has really freaked me out, I had no idea that Microsoft were working directly with AQA to design the curriculum. Please can people feedback about this?
Anna
Anna Morris say.hello.to.anna@googlemail.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707886.stm ok, so actually, this has really freaked me out, I had no idea that Microsoft were working directly with AQA to design the curriculum. Please can people feedback about this?
Sure. Where? I've tweeted @BBCClick but presumably AQA should get some negative feedback too?
defo - meant if anyone knows anymore about it though, as bbc report is a bit hard to understand
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:58 PM, MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Anna Morris say.hello.to.anna@googlemail.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707886.stm ok, so actually, this has really freaked me out, I had no idea that Microsoft were working directly with AQA to design the curriculum. Please can people feedback about this?
Sure. Where? I've tweeted @BBCClick but presumably AQA should get some negative feedback too?
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M$ UK has a large website dedicated to flogging their "licences" to the education sector:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/schools/software-licensing/licences-fo...
Arguably, of course, Microsoft has been complicit in the wrecking of computing in schools.
Businesses tend to use M$ Office - and have made noises about wanting school leavers to be already able to use the damned thing (as if it is difficult, or something). Schools have complied - and M$ has graciously flogged them licenses at a "special rate" - as if they are doing them a favour.
Its all crazy, since by the time kids leave school, business computing will have changed yet again.
Have a read of:
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/data/uploads/ComputingCurric.pdf
David
Anna Morris say.hello.to.anna@googlemail.com writes:
Should Microsoft design our national curriculum (and does Brian cox know the correct answer to this question?!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9707886.stm
ok, so actually, this has really freaked me out, I had no idea that Microsoft were working directly with AQA to design the curriculum. Please can people feedback about this?
Anna
I don't have time to watch that, but if it's the thing that Simon Peyton Jones http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/ is chairman of, don't be freaked out if he has sufficient influence. I am worried about the influence of Microsoft (amongst other things) on education in my university.
Obviously Brian Cox knows about everything, but I'm glad I had more substantial inspiration as a physicist, and then from people like SPJ in computing.