This is an interesting point, and clearly something about which there will be much more interest in the future. I agree with the poster AG above; there’s also the question of timelyness, which is often an issue in IT education. I’m trying to think what such a curriculum might look like today if it had been written, say, ten years ago. Clearly, some of the issues remain the same — questions of identity and presentation and privacy. But what of warnings to, oh, make sure you log off the BBS every half hour or so so you don’t block the phone line coming into the house, or the unethicalness of wardialing, or the need to write webpages that only use HTML 2.0 so that Internet Explorer 4 can read them, and so on. That sorta thing. While clearly the morality questions are constant, it’s hard to extract them away from the technology in a way that they’re still meaningful and relevant to kids and yet they see the connections to whatever technologies they’re currently using.

Jofish

I view this kind of thing as a marker that a society is at least engaging contemporaneity, warts and all, and failure to do so as a frank admission that the society in question just isn’t up to the task. American administrators might as well hang up a banner reading “*All* Children Left Behind.”