The Reg launches into the Beebs GCSE Bitesize site

[Dos_Box]

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/02/06/bitesize_gcse/

Nice reading and so very true.

[Dos_Box]

6. You said a - utility.

Hard luck. She has a need for specific software that's written for a tight purpose.

No, I want a hard drive fixing utility

FFS!!!

[indiegirl]

Isn't it just a teeny bit worrying that our so-called ICT teachers are recommending these sites to the students to browse over at home?!

They're doomed... all of them...

[TechMonkey]

I did the UI question they wrote about and got the last wrong becuase I wrote the answers they said I should have?!! Does end up with the great lines of, "Hard Luck! Input was wrong. You should have wrote Input". Ohh the other kind of input. Of course!

[pete]

Isn't it just a teeny bit worrying that our so-called ICT teachers are recommending these sites to the students to browse over at home?!

Is it so different from the misinformation they receive in school? I know the current ICT curriculum is appalling, and the kids know it as well. Kids are taught how to check boxes, _not_ how to use computers / IT.

For example:

1) "make an spelling error, print it out - 1 mark"
2) "Write that you've identified the error & print that out" - 1 mark
3) Print out corrected page -1 mark

Not forgetting the stage-by-stage google searches of increasing complexity that gain you a mark per stage (providing you print each stage out).

Woe betide the kid who thinks "I know, I'll just do a complex search and that's that, 'cos from that they can _obviously _ infer I can do the easier stuff" - ah young Padawan, you haven't reckoned with the $bloody_pedantic_examining_board have you?

I could go on.....

Pete

[webman]

Not directly related to Bitesize, but what I find worrying is that pupils are being taught "webpage design" using powerpoint! 8O

[Wizzer]

Not directly related to Bitesize, but what I find worrying is that pupils are being taught "webpage design" using powerpoint! 8O

Whhhaat? 8O

I stuggled to allow myself to use publisher, I hated doing it, only with pressure from the others in my department did I crumble and accept defeat, but that was in my previous schoo and now I can use frontpage or Dreamweaver yay.

BTW, this same previous school for whom I set up a fully customisable content management system (using Typo3) have reverted back to static HTML with a very amateur look loosely based on my design, but broken. Why did I bother.

[ChrisH]

They use publisher here for websites they are slowly starting to use Dream Weaver now so hopefully we will have it phased out in another year.

[andy]

We have just (well, just as in last year, just before the upgrade ) paid 1700 quid for Macromedia Studio - so of course we are using Word for websites Oh, and Corel 9 for graphics.

In fairness, the head of ICT is trying to teach himself Dreamweaver, so maybe this year...

Andy