Ontario updating curriculum for laptop, technological schooling
Ontario is updating its curriculum in each laptop science and technological schooling to incorporate extra hands-on studying.
Training Minister Stephen Lecce mentioned the adjustments will give college students expertise with new know-how, expose them to real-life drawback fixing and put together them for the job market.
“At this time on this province and nation there’s 17,800 vacancies with respect to laptop info system professionals,” Lecce mentioned at a press convention on Monday.
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“There’s an enormous want for this sort of competence in our financial system and plenty of employers, together with in a few of our extra superior areas of the financial system, are saying, ‘we want younger folks to graduate with these varieties of job expertise.”’
The up to date laptop research curriculum will begin with a brand new Grade 10 course in September and can give college students the chance to use coding ideas, construct hands-on initiatives, and examine synthetic intelligence, cybersecurity and rising applied sciences, Lecce mentioned.
The technological schooling curriculum updates are set to begin with revised Grade 9 and 10 programs in September 2024.
The updates will replicate automation developments in agriculture, manufacturing, and development, and the brand new course materials will put together college students for careers as electricians and plumbers and in communications and manufacturing, the federal government mentioned.
Ontario final up to date the technological schooling curriculum in 2009 and the pc science curriculum was final up to date in 2008.
Financial Growth Minister Vic Fedeli mentioned the brand new curriculum will guarantee college students can reap the benefits of job alternatives in rising fields in Ontario.
“We wish the following era to grasp that there’s each bit as a lot worth in a commerce certificates as there’s in a level,” Fedeli mentioned.
“The expert trades are fairly actually constructing Ontario, whether or not that’s via manufacturing jobs, or the constructing of houses and important infrastructure. There are additionally key alternatives in new sectors, aerospace info know-how that every one rely on STEM studying, supported by a tech workforce of greater than 408,000 workers.”
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