I was listening to a Hanselminutes podcast and he mentioned a reference to the "Who Moved My Cheese" book (not sure if it was intentional!). It's a great little book about managing change in life and specifically at work. Well worth a read even if you think you are ok with handling change. Good stuff, it's a really small if you aren't normally a reader. I think I have already given my copy to someone but it's only a couple of quid so pick it up.
via nesta.org.uk Following on from an article on the BBC about Raspberry Pi, this next gen report has some interesting findings. The scariest stat which I picked out from the BBC website was "out of the 28,767 teachers who were awarded Qualified Teacher Status... in 2010, only three qualified in computing or computing science as their primary qualification" Having worked as a computer science teacher for a year in a school that was a specialist in Computing I can concur that the uptake in Comp Sci was woeful. 2 Students for A2... The other teachers backgrounds in Computer Science was also fairly woeful (most knowing a bit about Office but still a paltry amount even about that). I couldn't speak for my counterpart that I was covering however. I suspect they were fairly up on things. All in all what kills me is that Computer science is not a secondary level subject. Areas are often covered, a little in IT, a little in DT subjects (if kids choose Systems and Contr
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