Aims of Dwight Computing
Computer Technology is designed to create a balance between the imparting of skills, the acquisition of techniques and knowledge, and the growth and awareness of the students' personal responses. This is a practical hands-on course which is taught in the computer lab. Students work one to a machine. The aims of computing are to:

• encourage an awareness of the impact of computers on society and the environment
  
• develop an appreciation of the international and intercultural aspects of computers
  
• provide a variety of technological information and ideas
  
• encourage curiosity, ingenuity, resourcefulness and discrimination
  
• stimulate self-confidence through the knowledge and application of computers
  
• develop practical skills through the creation of products/solutions
  
• promote effective, informed, appropriate communication
  
• foster responsibility for designs, decisions, actions and assessment
  
• promote effective cooperation and respect for individual differences when responding to technological challenges
  
• develop logical-thinking skills

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