Can an ICT curriculum be boring?
Oscar Wilde said that art reflects the viewer rather than the artist. Does the same not apply to curricula?
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Then Go on, bore ‘em: How to make your ICT lessons excruciatingly dull is just right for you.
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Oscar Wilde said that art reflects the viewer rather than the artist. Does the same not apply to curricula?
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Updated on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:11AM by
Terry Freedman, Educational ICT Consultant
Is there ever any justification for getting students to type in huge amounts of data? It’s a point I raise in my book, Go On, Bore ‘Em: How to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull.
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Using and Teaching ICT No, not a riddle, but a question which came to mind on reading Eric Juli’s second comment on my post Rules of Engagement.
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Not all youngsters are bored in their ICT lessons, of course, but it’s a sufficiently common complaint to have made me do a mental double-take when Maddi, an Australian teenager, happened to mention that she actually enjoyed her ICT lessons.
