Several people on CUK have bitched about education and IT education in particular, this is your chance to do something about it.
As part of my articles in The Register about IT education I've been talking to quite a number of IT teachers.
IT education is desperately short of people who understand IT, less than 1/4 of IT teachers have any formal education in the subject and they keep changing the curriculum.
I'm proposing to start a not-for-profit "agency" that will match IT pros up with schools and suspect that resting contractors might be a very useful part of this.
The work would be anything from helping get their network and server infrastructure to a decent state, negotiating with vendors, tutoring in programming or even developing course materials and useful programs.
One example project would be to develop a virtual machine config and setup that allowed teenage programmer to write code without letting them break anything.
I will share that in UK schools a large % are banned from creating executables because of the fear of a 12 year old writing a VBA macro that destroys the world financial system. Yes really. We can fix this, or more accurately, you can fix this and I will merely unleash this at the target.
I want to get this right and so any sensible feedback you have is really useful.
As part of my articles in The Register about IT education I've been talking to quite a number of IT teachers.
IT education is desperately short of people who understand IT, less than 1/4 of IT teachers have any formal education in the subject and they keep changing the curriculum.
I'm proposing to start a not-for-profit "agency" that will match IT pros up with schools and suspect that resting contractors might be a very useful part of this.
The work would be anything from helping get their network and server infrastructure to a decent state, negotiating with vendors, tutoring in programming or even developing course materials and useful programs.
One example project would be to develop a virtual machine config and setup that allowed teenage programmer to write code without letting them break anything.
I will share that in UK schools a large % are banned from creating executables because of the fear of a 12 year old writing a VBA macro that destroys the world financial system. Yes really. We can fix this, or more accurately, you can fix this and I will merely unleash this at the target.
I want to get this right and so any sensible feedback you have is really useful.
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