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<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Subject: ICT classes to be
eliminated from upper secondary education in Greece</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_204" style="text-align:justify;"><span id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_203" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Dear sirs/madams</span><span id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_245" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">,</span><div class="yiv9968443412yqt8740647417" id="yiv9968443412yqtfd30392"><div class="yiv9968443412yqt6748843092" id="yiv9968443412yqtfd56484"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div class="yiv9968443412yqt8740647417" id="yiv9968443412yqtfd65069"><div class="yiv9968443412yqt6748843092" id="yiv9968443412yqtfd66439">
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">The Greek Ministry of Education has announced the
reforms and changes in Greek education through the new law that was signed on
Thursday 29/8/2013. The</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"> Ministry is eliminating ICT classes from general
upper secondary curriculum in Greek schools</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">, changes it radically during the years of college and
downgrades it in the technical training.</span><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></span><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN">Computer science</span></span><span class="yiv9968443412shorttext"><span style="" lang="EN"> </span></span><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN">is not</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> </span><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN-US">equally</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">just like</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">Maths,</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">physics or </span><span style=""> </span><span class="yiv9968443412hps">biology.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Teachers of Informatics have been trying the whole
time to prove the necessity and use of our science in the Secondary education
and more specifically in upper Secondary Education (Lyceum). Every time we have
to prove that our science plays a determinant role towards the very much wanted
growth and development that our country needs desperately.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Unfortunately, the Ministry of Education does not
share the same opinion. They don’t consider Computer Science as necessary in
the education of students. They don’t realize that the ‘digital’ education has
a leading role in the development of a country nowadays. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">The statistical research carried by the Greek
Observatory shows that our country is ranked 5<sup>th</sup> from the end in the
list of digital and networking education, nevertheless the Ministry insists on
its’ initial decision.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">We hope that you can feel and realize our anger,
despair and will to defend our Science, equal opportunities to new technologies
training for all and even more financially weaker pupils and employment
prospects of future generations. We appreciate and recognize the works and
services you provide and more specifically the universal recognition of the
Computer Science in Education.</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">We call upon your sensitivity towards this matter so
that you could interfere and help us in this “educational crime” that is being
committed in a low rate development and financially poor country. </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">The final bill will be submitted to Parliament on 7
September. We kindly request of you <span style=""> </span>to
take regard of the points put forward in this letter and support our case with
the Greek Ministry of Education. As we have received no valid answers from the
people planning these supposedly innovative changes, we are counting on
European education institutions to press for such answers. In particular, we
would really appreciate an explanation for the following: </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">What
is the rationale behind eliminating constructive IT classes such as
“Application Development in a Programming Environment” from upper secondary
school curricula, especially when the changes are supposedly being introduced
as “innovations” in the name of the NEW Lyceum</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Based on
the above you are asked to support the cause organized by the </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">Hellenic Association of Computer
Science (PEKAP)</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">:</span></div>
<ol start="1" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_184" style="margin-top:0cm;" type="1"><li class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Put pressure at the
Greek government and the Ministry of Education to ensure and upgrade the
IT as a separate course at the New School, which aims at developing
algorithmic thinking that is necessary in all subjects, not only in
science. </span></li></ol>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<ol start="2" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_185" style="margin-top:0cm;" type="1"><li class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It
is</span></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">crucial to</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">emphasize</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">that</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">it is a necessity</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">to</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">teach</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">algorithmic</span>
in last <span class="yiv9968443412hps">grade of the</span> upper high <span class="yiv9968443412hps">school<span style=""> </span>(Lykeum), treated</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">equally</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">just like</span> <span class="yiv9968443412hps">Maths,</span>
<span class="yiv9968443412hps">physics or </span><span style=""> </span><span class="yiv9968443412hps">biology </span></span><span class="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_133" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;" lang="EN-US">and
be a part of the entrance test to university.</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> </span></li></ol>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<ol start="3" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_186" style="margin-top:0cm;" type="1"><li class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Argue to the
political leadership of the Ministry of Education to upgrade the course of
IT and high school, and not to condemn our young students to digital
illiteracy</span><span class="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_140" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;" lang="EN-US">. </span></li></ol>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_259" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span class="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_144" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Thank you very much for your
time. I am naturally at your disposal for any other information/input you may
need. </span><span class="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_147" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:ArialMT;" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" id="yiv9968443412yui_3_7_2_58_1380661999514_260" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Kind regards, Yours sincerely,</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">Tsiavalia Fotini</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Member of Hellenic Association of Computer
Science Teaches (P.E.KA.P)</span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US">“P.E.KA.P”
(Hellenic Association of Computer Science Teaches) for providing ideas and
input for this memo (see “PEKAP” Facebook group, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/210307492345/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/210307492345/</a>)</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="yiv9968443412MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span class="yiv9968443412hps"><span style="" lang="EN-US">P.S. Please find attached some further
information<span style=""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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