{"id":247,"date":"2013-04-08T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2013\/04\/08\/renaming-the-subject\/"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T09:40:00","slug":"renaming-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/renaming-the-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming the subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I mentioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/uploadedFiles\/Royal_Society_Content\/education\/policy\/computing-in-schools\/2012-01-12-Computing-in-Schools.pdf\">report<\/a>&nbsp;[PDF] from the Royal Society of Engineering, entitled <i>Shut Down or Restart?<\/i>, about computing in schools, which made a number of recommendations about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s first recommendation related to terminology. The report criticised the vague and inconsistent use of terms such as &#8220;ICT&#8221; and &#8220;digital skills&#8221; and recommended that the subject was divided into three areas:<\/p>\n<p>1. Computer Science<br \/>2. Digital Literacy<br \/>3. Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Computer science<\/b> covers the more rigorous, academic and theoretical part of the subject, including topics such as software development and computer architecture.<\/p>\n<p><b>Digital literacy<\/b> covers the basic computing skills required to use computers and function in the modern world, and includes such things as office skills, using the Internet, and digital photography.<\/p>\n<p><b>Information technology<\/b> is the more practical, application focussed, informatics, social side of the subject, including topics such as project planning, designing information systems, information skills, and the social implications of the subject.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/01\/royal-society-report-on-computing-in.html\">I said<\/a> at the time of the publication of the report that I planned to adopt this terminology in my own portfolio, and this process began a few weeks ago when I met with people from the Assessment Standards team to look at renaming the External Verification groups in my area. This process has now commenced.<\/p>\n<p>But the terminology will affect more than Verification Groups since I plan to use it for all future developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I mentioned a report&nbsp;[PDF] from the Royal Society of Engineering, entitled Shut Down or Restart?, about computing in schools, which made a number of recommendations about the subject. It&#8217;s first recommendation related to terminology. The report criticised the vague and inconsistent use of terms such as &#8220;ICT&#8221; and &#8220;digital skills&#8221; and recommended that the subject was divided into three areas: 1. Computer Science2. Digital Literacy3. Information Technology. Computer science covers the more rigorous, academic and theoretical part&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}