In keeping with general trends (girls not boys), the number of students opting to do digital technologies has fallen over the years. There are several reasons for this…
- They are not electing to take it in Year 9 ie from primary school. We are thinking of calling the subject computing next year so parents and students will recognize the area of study.
- We don’t teach unit standards at senior levels anymore (applied computing).
- Digital Technologies is perceived as too hard/too much work – word of mouth by students sets the agenda…
- We have not yet learned how to teach computer science in a super accessible way with easier to use tools – something we are working on.
This means there are not enough classes in digital technologies to keep me gainfully employed. Fortunately, my degree of many years ago is circa 50% economics studies to second year. Who would have thought I would end up teaching it.
