There's a short window in which you can influence how computing is taught in Australia
Over the last year or so, The Reg's Australian team has followed the development of Australia's first Digital Technologies Curriculum. That curriculum aims to teach computational thinking all the way from kindergarten to year 10.
The curriculum was finally published yesterday, as we report here.
That's the good news.
The bad news is the curriculum is no guarantee of ever being adopted. The federal government is reviewing the national curriculum, because it doesn't like some parts of it. So the document released this week is not signed off and may never be.
But don't despair. The government is also conducting a consultataion process, detailed here and offers a submission form for feedback on the review here.
If you care about computing being taught in schools, can we ask that you read our article and then visit the submission form? Vulture South isn't pushing a particular line here in terms of the tone of any submission. But we do think this is an important topic that deserves scrutiny.