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Entries in why is ICT boring (5)

Thursday
Feb022012

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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Thursday
May262011

Why should students type in data?

Updated on Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:11AM by Registered CommenterTerry 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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Monday
Oct042010

Why Is The Curriculum Like a Bus Timetable?

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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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Tuesday
Aug102010

Why Are ICT Lessons Boring? The Start of the Lesson

The way any activity starts, ie your first few seconds’ experience of it, sets the tone for the rest of the period in question. What does this imply for the start of an ICT lesson?

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Monday
Aug092010

Why Is ICT Boring?

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.

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