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Title:

No Web Professional Left Behind: Educating the Next Generation

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Intermediate
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Presenter:
Aarron Walter, The Web Standards Project (WaSP)
Description:
Far too often, students aspiring to be web professionals leave school with a degree yet without adequate training to prepare them for the real world. The Web Standards Project (WaSP) announces a living curriculum to help schools, colleges and universities bridge the gap between educators and industry best practices.
Zac Gordon
on 8/8/08
Yes, yes, yes. As a secondary school educator, I too often have cringe at the instruction that aspiring developers receive in both secondary and higher education courses. This course can help to address this problem at its root... Go Aaron, Go!
Quinn Strassel
on 11/8/08
As a former high school English teacher in Brooklyn, I can attest to the fact that this is needed. Kids need to learn how to communicate in the real world, using the same skills and tools professionals use (blogs, HTML, video, etc...). Standardized tests are completely ignoring these basic forms. We need to empower kids to use the tools they'll be expected to use in the real world.
erica ware
on 12/8/08
Sounds like a much needed session.
Tanya McGinnity
on 13/8/08
Essential session!
Aarron Walter
on 15/8/08
Also speaking on this session will be Chris Mills, who is the force behind the Opera Web Standards Curriculum (http://www.opera.com/wsc/). Bill Cullifer, executive director of the World Organization of Webmasters (http://www.webprofessionals.org/), will also be participating in the panel. As a professional organization, WOW is an advocate for education for the Web industry.
Chris Mills
on 15/8/08
Thanks for the plug Aarron! Check out www.opera.com/wsc to get a taste of how the Opera WSC is shaping up so far (it will be completely published by about September/October this year).
Kathy Keller
on 17/8/08
yes, please! We must develop and promote a curriculum for web standards if we want one web for everyone. Let's put our money where our mouths are. I vote YES for this panel.
Henny Swan
on 18/8/08
Education is absolutely key to the successful implementation of standards compliant websites and seeing a genuine shift on the web. The work being done here is really exciting and I can't wait to learn more about it.
Jacklyn Burgan
on 21/8/08
This discussion is very close to my heart. I can only hope that Aarron and the WaSP crew will be successful! A standard curriculum is absolutely necessary. Big fat YES to this panel!
Do it today!
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