Thanks for uploading the video. I just watched it (though I see it has been taken down now), and the Q&A was a bit of a car-crash. I felt the “answers” to serious concerns were extremely condescending and dismissive. The amount of planning, preparing and assessing that we will now have to do to ensure that pupils are able to complete the Assignment is incredible. Not to mention that most people will be teaching this brand new course (because that’s what it is) this month.
The parts that were removed don’t come anywhere close to making up for the parts that were added. The first bullet point under ‘removed’ wasn’t even a removal. It was an addition of structure diagrams and flow charts. The removal of contemporary developments isn’t a removal either, because it was never really assessed in the first place – it just sat there. The removal of searching, sorting and calculating using software is the addition of being required to write the SQL instead of relying on the Access query designer. The removal of calculation of file sizes now removes context for the need for compression – something that seems to have more emphasis now.
As if we don’t have enough work, we now have even more but are being told that we don’t. Who makes these decisions? Who is consulted? I don’t remember being asked about any of this EVER. I just see new documents with more and more work required EVERY SESSION.
No wonder teacher numbers are at an all time low.
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