ICT in Schools - Newsnight - BBC Two England - 10-10-2011

[Blunder1248]

I did IT A-level and it was about word, excel and powerpoint, in the course we did 3 weeks of html which i loved then it was back on to licking MS ass again.

[madcapoperator]

Ah Spring 2007 and the ICT GCSE's being taken by me consisted of printing off shitloads of microsoft office documents to show i could use a piece of software that I mastered at least 4 years earlier...To me the ICT thing should end with gaining the ECDL online qualification in like year 9 then concentrate on teaching computer science and programming through their GCSE years. We were constantly told how lucky we had it with out GUI's and internet access but it's become just as much as a burden.

[PatziWinter]

It's not TEN types of people! It is ONE ZERO types of people! That is the whole point!

[404jared404]

Gee that presenter is rude and annoying.

[nolly53]

I wish that someone had explained that joke to Kirsty. She obviously missed the point!!

[DaVince21]

I learned Visual Basic in high school (that is, when I was about 15 years old). Only problem is we got that when you applied for the advanced classes yourself. I can't believe this has declined even further to ICT in schools now being about "learning PowerPoint".

[sneekylinux]

the main problem here is that ict is just using programs to get on with life, not really anything to do with computer science, and thats were the jobs are, so education dept and schools get your finger out

[blackbox246]

UK sucks for Teaching Computer Science!!!!!

[sandtreader]

@dumuh Maybe so, but why aren't those game engines British-made any more?

I can confirm just how awful ICT GCSE is, my daughter has just been through it - about a couple of days worth of useful MS Office training wrapped up in two years of utterly pointless and boring "evidencing".

[dumuh]

It's funny how much they talk about programming when many of the games they highlight use outsourced game engines. GTA4 uses an engine made by Rockstar San Diego and Batman: Arkham City uses Unreal Engine 3.

[8BitHappens]

@dumuh That's not the point, the point is that there are a declining number of game development companies in England, which was previously one of the market leaders and made some of the best games around. There is much more to making a game than the engine.

[dumuh]

@8BitHappens

I agree there's much more to a game than the game engine but this news report talked heavily about the lack of game programmers in the UK.

[blablamannetje]

Hahaha: at 04:06 the ancient BBC man gives the finger to the computer.

[WASDsweden]

What is the software at 05:11 ?

[DaaAhhNuh]

@WASDsweden It is Scratch - scratch.mit.edu