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Key questions as the new ICT curriculum begins to emerge

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The drafting of the new national curriculum programmes of study for ICT is well underway with early proposals already emerging. The changes will have notable implications for teachers. Bob Harrison reports on the process so far and poses some key question

The new ICT national curriculum is beginning to take shape. 

The most recent drafts produced by the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) at the invitation of the Department for Education (DfE) have now gone through several iterations and have been exposed to a widening circle of stakeholders including academics, ICT membership organisations, headteachers and teachers from all key stages.

But that’s the easy bit surely? The difficult part will be to engage with the very ICT teachers who were told by education secretary Michael Gove at BETT 2012 in January that their ICT lessons were “dull and boring” and to get them to turn the programmes of study into engaging and stimulating schemes of work and lessons.

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