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ICT: Education

Original answer

There are a number of resources available to support computing education and schools are best placed to decide what will be most effective for their pupils.

The national curriculum in computing emphasises the academic discipline of computer science. Through studying topics such as computational logic, algorithms and data representation, pupils are obtaining insight into how the digital technologies that they use every day actually work and understanding how these technology products result from human ingenuity and rational design processes. We want young people to have the opportunity to actively create new technologies, rather than being passive consumers of them.

The Government has spent more than £4.5 million over the past three years to support schools in delivering high quality computing teaching. This includes £3 million for Computing At School to build a national network of over 350 ‘Master Teachers’ in Computer Science whom schools can commission to provide training for their teachers.

The answer was corrected by Lord Nash (Conservative)

on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Corrected answer

There are a number of resources available to support computing education and schools are best placed to decide what will be most effective for their pupils.

The national curriculum in computing emphasises the academic discipline of computer science. Through studying topics such as computational logic, algorithms and data representation, pupils are obtaining insight into how the digital technologies that they use every day actually work and understanding how these technology products result from human ingenuity and rational design processes. We want young people to have the opportunity to actively create new technologies, rather than being passive consumers of them.

The Government has spent more than £4.5 million over the past three years to support schools in delivering high quality computing teaching. This includes £3 million for Computing At School to build a national network of over 350 ‘Master Teachers’ in Computer Science whom schools can commission to provide training for their teachers.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL3800

Session

2015-16

Subjects

Children Computers Education Robots

Link

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