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IT Education And Budget Tech Advice
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In this episode of Norwich Today, Dominik discusses IT education and affordable technology. He critiques the current computing curriculum's failure to prepare students for work and recommends budget smartphones for education. Key moments include Dominik sharing an anecdote about destroying his OnePlus One in a river and a demonstration of Google Cardboard for virtual reality.
Dominik discusses IT education and affordable technology. He expresses a lack of faith in the new computing curriculum, describing it as a scattershot approach and arguing that school IT education often fails to prepare students for the workplace. Dominik also provides recommendations for budget smartphones for education, such as the Moto E, Moto G, and OnePlus One, while noting that tablets can be cheaper without contracts. He shares a humorous anecdote about destroying his OnePlus One after it fell into a river while he was launching a boat. Additionally, Dominik mentions his tech tip blog hosted on the Dyslexia Action website and introduces Google Cardboard for virtual reality.
Topics
- IT education and vocational training
- Affordable smartphones and tablets for children
- Technical specifications and hardware trade-offs in budget phones
- Budget smartphone recommendations and durability
- Virtual reality technology via Google Cardboard
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- Dominik
- Jack Johnson
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In principle, the basic idea is that apprenticeships—that's a good, that's the right approach. That's—I—I don't have a lot of faith in the new computing curriculum because that's a very scattershot approach. You know, trying to teach a lot of people very general things, and I don't have any faith in that.
General impressions, but I don't think it matters at all because I gen I generally don't think the the sort of IT education you get in school prepares you for pretty much anything. What you need to do is get perhaps inspired by it, go away, do something on your own. The internet, as we know, it has been built by people.
Five minutes in the river when I was launching my boat, and and leant over it, slid out of my pocket, and and it took me a while before I found it. It was on for like half a day for the battery run out, but it never the screen never turned on. So again, so so so so that will be an issue, of course, with any phone.
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