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Having volunteered help my nephew with this subject I was presented with a revision guide to show what the course consists of, and to be quite frank, I am utterly gobsmacked. It appears that they don't teach anything of value at all.
It's no bloody wonder that nothing works anymore if this is what is being taught in schools, it's worse than useless. Add this to the admission (from a friend who used to be a maths teacher) that they don't do matrices until A-level now (how can you manipulate computer graphics without understanding it?) I'm fast coming to the conclusion that going to school these days seems like an advanced course in wasting time.
When asked my opinion on the course content, I could only ask, "Well that's alright for the first week, but what are we going to do for the rest of the 2 years?"
Any teachers care to explain what on earth goes on all day in a modern school?
It's no bloody wonder that nothing works anymore if this is what is being taught in schools, it's worse than useless. Add this to the admission (from a friend who used to be a maths teacher) that they don't do matrices until A-level now (how can you manipulate computer graphics without understanding it?) I'm fast coming to the conclusion that going to school these days seems like an advanced course in wasting time.
When asked my opinion on the course content, I could only ask, "Well that's alright for the first week, but what are we going to do for the rest of the 2 years?"
Any teachers care to explain what on earth goes on all day in a modern school?
We didn't do Matrices at AS-Level maths, I think it's covered in A2-Level statistics.
With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly. Systems that I have since used in my daily life.
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I remeber that after about 3 weeks me and my mates had learnt all we needed and just started using the time to write a spoof weekly school newspaper...
With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly. Systems that I have since used in my daily life.
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I remeber that after about 3 weeks me and my mates had learnt all we needed and just started using the time to write a spoof weekly school newspaper...
Nobody You Know said:
With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly.
It's wonderful how the education system does a cracking job at giving kids a broad perspective on the different products available from a range of vendors.Nobody You Know said:
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I failed GCSE computing, as I submitted a program for the project. "Programming was not part of the course" and they awarded me no marks.The kiddy sitting next to me submitted a database of his dads golf scores that we knocked up in about 6 minutes, and was awarded full marks.
Nobody You Know said:
We didn't do Matrices at AS-Level maths, I think it's covered in A2-Level statistics.
With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly. Systems that I have since used in my daily life.
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I remeber that after about 3 weeks me and my mates had learnt all we needed and just started using the time to write a spoof weekly school newspaper...
IN STATISTICS?With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly. Systems that I have since used in my daily life.
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I remeber that after about 3 weeks me and my mates had learnt all we needed and just started using the time to write a spoof weekly school newspaper...
Jeez, and they say the education system isn't being dumbed down.
cs02rm0 said:
Nobody You Know said:
With regards to the IT GCSE, it was fecking easy to do but it does give a good knowledge of how to use systems like Excel and Access properly.
It's wonderful how the education system does a cracking job at giving kids a broad perspective on the different products available from a range of vendors.
okgo said:
Gun said:
When I was at school ICT was just an excuse to surf the web, only a few people took it seriously.
I was one of the former, and still smashed it. Far too easy and worthless as said.
ks.Perhaps if people were taught how computers work in ICT, not necessarily the troubleshooting and fixing of them, then that would make my job somuch easier.
The number of times I have to sort peoples problems out because they don't realise that pulling a memory stick out of a computer whilst it is saving a document will corrupt the document.
ICT should be this is a computer, this is how it works, this is how you use it. Not a Microsoft users course.
At the place I work, they would be stuffed, as we don't use Access, and only very few people actually use office. How many of these "ICT" trained people know how to process PDF files into diferent colour separations, but would still put down that they are ICT trained?
The number of times I have to sort peoples problems out because they don't realise that pulling a memory stick out of a computer whilst it is saving a document will corrupt the document.
ICT should be this is a computer, this is how it works, this is how you use it. Not a Microsoft users course.
At the place I work, they would be stuffed, as we don't use Access, and only very few people actually use office. How many of these "ICT" trained people know how to process PDF files into diferent colour separations, but would still put down that they are ICT trained?
Mr E said:
Nobody You Know said:
It's not really meant to be a programming course.
I failed GCSE computing, as I submitted a program for the project. "Programming was not part of the course" and they awarded me no marks.The kiddy sitting next to me submitted a database of his dads golf scores that we knocked up in about 6 minutes, and was awarded full marks.
Edited by TeamD on Sunday 11th January 12:33
Alfa_75_Steve said:
The ECDL qualification is just as bad.
Mrs 75 did one, as it was cheap, and employers seem to like it.
They teach memory / hard drive capacities in decimal.
ie. 1GB = 1000MB, not 1024MB, as it should be.
Technically, hard drive capacities are in decimal, the yanks perverted that one years ago. Mrs 75 did one, as it was cheap, and employers seem to like it.
They teach memory / hard drive capacities in decimal.
ie. 1GB = 1000MB, not 1024MB, as it should be.
Sorry to bear bad news but that "terrabyte" you bought? It isn't a terrabyte.
Edited by TeamD on Sunday 11th January 12:36
swerni said:
Alfa_75_Steve said:
ie. 1GB = 1000MB, not 1024MB, as it should be.
because that's going to make a huge difference to anyone's life 
Could also cause problems if you are calculating a file size in 'proper' megabytes, then are given storage media in 'decimal' megabytes, as your file won't fit....
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