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The Department of Basic Education Circular requiring proprietary office & programming technologies: An excellent example of how not to do IT in education in South African schools. This presentation was given at the a stakeholder meeting at the Department of Basic Education, December 6th 2013
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The Department of Basic Education Circular requiring proprietary office & programmingtechnologies:An excellent example of how not to do IT in education in South African schools
Derek Keats, [email protected]://dkeats.com
Derek Keats, [email protected]://dkeats.com
FOSS Policy 2007
Use FOSS
Migrateto FOSS
Developin FOSS
UseFOSS
License
PromoteFOSS
POLICY
Context
MINIMUM INTEROPERABILITYSTANDARDS (MIOS)
for Government Information Systems
Office Document formats
Open Document Format (ODF)[SANS 26300]
We are not getting enough young people interested incomputer science and other areas of IT
It is time to stop focusing on programming languages...
We need to make computing more exciting!
This is 2013!
Injecting vision into the curriculum:Free and Open Technologies
platforms
Free Software(Open Source)
Creating an excitingmaker culture
Marymount School (New York) 7th graders designed a light kit to be an educational project for a community center in Zimbabwe.
Credit: Adam Provost, 2013 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/dive-into-the-maker-movement-adam-provost
Free as in freedom
Free as in freedom
Learning from the bestCollaborating
Working in a communityConfidence in self
VALUES!
RecommendationsThe implementation of Circular S9 should be suspended pending further investigation, hence the status quo remains for now
During 2014-2015, the DBE examining panel needs to review the current assessment practice so as to make the IT practical paper language independent.
An independent group should be appointed to review both the CAT and IT curriculum to make them more current and more exciting so as to attract learners to the subjects
The revised curricula should be phased in in Grade 10 in 2016 and the IT curriculum should not have a prescribed programming language
Both CAT and IT must be compliant with the Government FOSS policy and the Minimum Interoperability Standards
