One of the main problems facing teachers in these subject areas, is the gap between what pupils know and do at home, compared with what they know and do at school.
Many pupils go home to better computing facilities that they have at school, both in terms of hardware and software, and have much fewer restrictions in what they can and cannot access at home compared with school. Your average teenager at home will multi task on Facebook, MSN, online games and whatever internet pages interest them at that time. This is not something they do at school. At school, they are more likely to be entering data into a spreadsheet that may or may not have been set up for them, and printing out what they have done to show this as evidence of coursework for the qualification they are on.
We need to think about merging what they need to know with what is also fun to know. We need to make sure they are aware of how complicated it can get without making them write reams of code to do so.
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