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Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) – December 4-10, 2011 – is a call to action to share information and offer activities that will advocate for computing and elevate computer science education for students at all levels. Everyone can participate! Would be nice to have something similar in SA! CSEdWeek: #Coding is the new latin. Support #computing! Read more by clicking Read More below Read More »
Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) – December 4-10, 2011 – is a call to action to share information and offer activities that will advocate for computing and elevate computer science education for students at all levels. Everyone can participate!
Would be nice to have something similar in SA!
CSEdWeek: #Coding is the new latin. Support #computing!
Read more by clicking Read More below
Generation Jobless: Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay – The Wall Street Journal In discussion forums for IT teachers it is often raised that IT learners often opt out in favour of ‘easier’ subjects, subjects which take up less time and effort and where ‘straight A’s ‘ are almost guaranteed. (and very often we allow them, sometimes even encourage them) Why? What can we do? Click Read More Read More »
Generation Jobless: Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay – The Wall Street Journal
In discussion forums for IT teachers it is often raised that IT learners often opt out in favour of ‘easier’ subjects, subjects which take up less time and effort and where ‘straight A’s ‘ are almost guaranteed.
(and very often we allow them, sometimes even encourage them)
Why? What can we do?
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Read about the 30 fastest growing careers to 2018 - three IT-relatated careers are listed here - one (Network systems and data communications analyst) listed as the second fastest growing. New IT fields likely to become availabe: Bioinformatics (is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge to form a single discipline.) Click Read More... for links to these interesting articles Read More »
Read about the 30 fastest growing careers to 2018 - three IT-relatated careers are listed here - one (Network systems and data communications analyst) listed as the second fastest growing.
New IT fields likely to become availabe: Bioinformatics (is the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge to form a single discipline.)
Click Read More... for links to these interesting articles
Prepare your Grade 12 learners for the 2011 NSC examinations. Provincial preparatory examination papers. Read More »
Prepare your Grade 12 learners for the 2011 NSC examinations.
Provincial preparatory examination papers.
As we all know, in 2012, the Grade 10 learners will be doing Scratch. During training in May, Scratch was met with great enthusiasm and embraced by all provinces. Sometimes people were sceptical but once they saw what could be done with Scratch, their scepticism changed to excitement! Scratch was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT Media Lab (http://scratch.mit.edu/ to achieve the following goals: • appeal to learners. • easy to program Read more from the presentation: Scratch Introduction (developed by the DBE training team) Scratch can be downloaded for free from: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Get_Started Excellent Scratch resources are available all over the Net. Click Read more for links to exciting resources Read More »
As we all know, in 2012, the Grade 10 learners will be doing Scratch.
During training in May, Scratch was met with great enthusiasm and embraced by all provinces. Sometimes people were sceptical but once they saw what could be done with Scratch, their scepticism changed to excitement!
Scratch was developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT Media Lab (http://scratch.mit.edu/ to achieve the following goals:
• appeal to learners.
• easy to program
Read more from the presentation: Scratch Introduction (developed by the DBE training team)
Scratch can be downloaded for free from: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Get_Started
Excellent Scratch resources are available all over the Net.
Click Read more for links to exciting resources
A lot has been asked about the programming language issue in IT. The choice of a programming language for introductory courses is a matter that has been debated for more than 30 years. There is a lot of literature available for those interested in reading about it. If one considers that there are between 2000 and 3000 programming languages available (according to Kaplan, Randy (2010). Choosing a First Programming Language. SIGITE’10, October 7–9, 2010, Midland, Michigan, USA.), then, choosing one, is not easy. Here is a summary and some information for teachers to read, to think about and to form their own opinion as well as some links that lead to interesting reading in this regard. Click Read more... Read More »
A lot has been asked about the programming language issue in IT.
The choice of a programming language for introductory courses is a matter that has been debated for more than 30 years. There is a lot of literature available for those interested in reading about it.
If one considers that there are between 2000 and 3000 programming languages available (according to Kaplan, Randy (2010). Choosing a First Programming Language. SIGITE’10, October 7–9, 2010, Midland, Michigan, USA.), then, choosing one, is not easy.
Here is a summary and some information for teachers to read, to think about and to form their own opinion as well as some links that lead to interesting reading in this regard.
Click Read more...
OPPORTUNITY FOR IT LEARNERS The Computer Olympiad First Round is FREE and leads to many opportunities... Clik Read More... for more information Read More »
OPPORTUNITY FOR IT LEARNERS
The Computer Olympiad First Round is FREE and leads to many opportunities...
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Grade 12 Final Exams 2011: Timetable Please note that all IT papers are written in Week 0: 18 October 2011 - Paper 1 (Practical Paper) 19 October 2011 - Paper 2 (Theory Paper) Read More »
Grade 12 Final Exams 2011: Timetable
Please note that all IT papers are written in Week 0:
18 October 2011 - Paper 1 (Practical Paper)
19 October 2011 - Paper 2 (Theory Paper)
For Grade 12, there are two PATs with two different scecarios: Language Scenario Sport Scenario Schools could do anyone of the two. If a school decides to do the Language Scenario PAT with the Grade 12 learners, then use the Sport Scenario PAT for the Grade 11 learners and vice versa. Read More »
For Grade 12, there are two PATs with two different scecarios:
Schools could do anyone of the two.
If a school decides to do the Language Scenario PAT with the Grade 12 learners, then use the Sport Scenario PAT for the Grade 11 learners and vice versa.