Are students put off studying computing because it sounds a bit “geeky” and nowhere near as exciting and interesting as the (old) ICT curriculum? In other words, are your students asking: “Is computing all about coding and not much else?”
The answer, of course, is no! One of the reasons that computing has a bad name is that it seems to have nothing much to do with ordinary problems. There is also a perception that it is mainly nerdy boys who are attracted to it (which in my experience tends to put girls off the subject).
This means that when you are drawing up your schemes of work, and especially when you are trying to convince students to take up the subject as an option, you must make sure it is not only relevant, but exciting.
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