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In Defence of IT in Australian Schools: A Critique of "No Train No Gain"
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Lloyd, Margaret – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
In November, 2005, an article entitled "No train no gain" (Thorp, 2005) quietly appeared in "The Australian." In the closing paragraphs of the article, the President of the Australian Computer Society placed the blame for the falling number of students enrolling in IT courses at university on how IT is taught in our schools.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Reader Response