ICT Classes "boring"

ICT Classes “boring”

ICT Classes are the bain of any student’s life. Being patronised by the governing bodies assuming they can’t make text bold or even open Microsoft Word.

Nowadays, the students knowledge can far surpass the teachers and it can sometimes be a case of role-reversal, the students teaching the teachers what to teach (what a mouthful!)

Modern ICT classes have been branded “not fit for purpose” and the kids are “bored rigid”. Instead of the boring, slow progress which would bore any student, regardless of ability – how about showing students what really goes on in computers..?

One could argue that taking a computer apart and showing the students how to put it back together, before asking them to do the same, would be much more beneficial and they’d understand HOW computers work, rather than learning how to make a new book on Excel.

It is still important that children learn how to use Microsoft Office, but most likely they know the basics and it doesn’t motivate them. Offering iPhone App Development, taking a computer apart or even just showing kids what pieces of hardware do what's inside a computer or printer might just captivate them and give them a wider general interest in computing.

By leaving this uninteresting curriculum to stagnate in boring and unproductive classes, it is alienating students whose time might be more creatively displayed in a Java program knocked up in five minutes or creating something truly creative and wonderful on Microsoft Visual Basic.