In a speech at Brighton College, he said the government had taken every step to free teachers from outdated curricula and old-fashioned teaching methods.
"That is why we have disapplied - in other words, abolished - the national curriculum programme of study in ICT," he said.
"It was a boring set of documents that encouraged boring teaching of boring tasks in a field which should be one of the most exciting in education.
"The ICT curriculum we inherited was a tedious run-through the use of applications which were becoming obsolete even as the curriculum was being written.
"For children who have become digital natives and who speak fluent technology as an additional language, the ICT curriculum was clearly inadequate."
Teachers, technology experts and technology companies were instead being asked to draw up an alternative computer science curriculum that could teach children how to code.
It would allow them to "design new applications instead of simply being asked to use tired old software".
Excitement and innovation was now returning to "one of the most important - and testing - intellectual disciplines in modern education", he said.
"Technology will change our lives in ways we cannot anticipate in the years to come, and it will certainly transform teaching as the revolution in higher education is proving.
"But one thing we can be certain of is that the acquisition of coding skills, the ability to think computationally, and the creativity inherent in designing new programmes will help prepare all our young people better for the future.
"It will be impossible to call yourself educated in years to come unless you understand, and can influence, the changes technology brings."
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Quelle/Source: Public Service, 10.05.2013
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