For Parents
What Are The Benefits Of re-wire For Young People
re-wire delivers courses for young people (age 11-18) that focus on technology, business and entrepreneurial skills.
Young people are now leading technologically advanced lives with MP3’s, streaming movies, on demand television, mobile phones, SMS, Instant Messaging, Facebook and Twitter all a regular part of a normal day.
re-wire aims to harness a young persons knowledge and enthusiasm for technology and to give them the opportunity to enhance their education through high quality courses delivered by experienced and award winning professional technology entrepreneurs.
re-wire –
- harnesses the creative drive of young people and provides a creative outlet
- give frustrated students a framework within which to enhance their education
- provides mentoring and support
- opens up new career options
- provides young people with direct links to industry and business
- supports current studies and curriculum
- enhances university applications
- provides work experience
- formalises spare time and hobby activities
- promotes responsible and safe usage of the internet
Formal education can struggle to keep up with the pace of technological change and as such education and educators can fall behind with students often having more advanced skills than their teachers. It is also impossible for a formal education curriculum to adapt as quickly the changes in technology and because of this it is difficult to keep computer education up to date and relevant.
re-wire has been set up to bridge the gap between the technology focussed society of the 21st Century and currently available public and private education services. The technology education curriculum focuses on the usage of simple business software packages such as Microsoft Word and Powerpoint and only starts to teach programming and software skills in the final year of secondary school by which time most young people have often grasped these technologies and moved onto more sophisticated uses of technology.
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