Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Maimonides
As of 2018, the Australian Curriculum Council implemented a mass roll out of a new element to both the Primary and Secondary School curriculums. Gone are the days when children were taught only Mathematics, English, Humanities and Science. The digital age has brought with it the need for a new generation of teaching. Children from Kindergarten through to Year 10, are beginning to be taught skills within the digital technology sphere.
The new curriculum teaches elements such as; acquiring, analysing and visualising data, understanding and designing algorithms, creating user interfaces, along with much more. The previous, now reformed, curriculum encouraged students to study digital technology degrees at university. However, pupils were entering higher education with little to no understanding as to what such degrees entail. Students left high school with very little knowledge as to the content of the degrees, or what digital technology encompassed. Hence, throughout university, students would have to learn an extensive amount of both basic and advanced skills to catch up to the required level of information and understanding needed to enter the workforce.
Whilst this method left students with a good amount of information gathered, in most cases there was a lack of knowledge about how to apply it in real world scenarios. Our new generations will now be taught a sizeable amount of information regarding some important skills needed to navigate the digital world during Primary and High School, hopefully freeing up their university studies to focus on teaching more specific subjects, providing more practical and applicable knowledge and real-world experience…Click here to read full article.
