How to Avoid Ending Up on the Unemployment Line. Mputer science teachers offered cash incentive. 19 October 2012Last updated at 11:32 ET By Judith Burns Education reporter, BBC News Fifty scholarships will be offered to attract top graduates into teaching computer science High-flying graduates are to be given a £20,000 golden handshake to train as computer science teachers. Ministers have asked Facebook, Microsoft and IBM to help design the training for the new teachers. Education Secretary Michael Gove said current information and communications technology (ICT) teacher training courses would be axed from next year. The move "could not be more welcome or more necessary", said Prof Steve Furber of the Royal Society. Major changes to the teaching of computing in English schools are already in the pipeline. Mr Gove announced plans to scrap the existing schools ICT curriculum back in January, calling it "demotivating and dull" with pupils learning little more than basic digital literacy skills such as word processing.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteMichael Gove. Resistance to reading compliance among college students: instructors' perspectives. The purpose of this article is to provide information regarding why college students are not inclined to read, why college instructors are not motivated to reinforce student reading, and what type of actions can be taken by instructors to increase student reading compliance of journal articles. Low student self-confidence, disinterest in the research topic and subject matter, and underestimating the significance of completing the required reading are the main reasons students are resistant to comply with the assigned reading.
Whereas, fear of poor student evaluations of instructors, the developmental level of students, the motivational levels of students and instructors, as well as the expectations and beliefs of instructors are the main reasons college instructors fail to repeatedly promote and assess student reading. Introduction Reading has always been an important part of the learning process in college classrooms. Reasons Students Do Not Read Often Implications For Practice. Unistats. Six ways to make IT exciting again. Boring classes mean the next generation isn't interested in IT: here's how to switch them back on to tech Students have lost interest in learning about IT – largely thanks to an education system that has been teaching office skills to children and calling it computing.
But with England’s IT curriculum facing the chop, it will soon be up to teachers to decide how to make computers interesting - so here’s how to show students (and grown-ups) that (computing is fun) = true. Make programming easy Sitting down and learning the programming vernacular, the nuances of variables, methods and objects, can be daunting. But there are a plenty of ways to learn programming that are gentle on beginners, such as tools that allow users to create programs by using drag and drop or tile-based interfaces. These provide a simple way for tech amateurs to learn about behaviours like changing variables and creating branching programs without having to get their hands dirty with code.
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