The IT Essentials curriculum should include more material and be more vendor neutral to increase its longevity. Stretching the current curriculum over a 180 day school year is challenging. Focusing so heavily on a particular OS makes it outdated too quickly. I would like to see more content and hands on activities on basic computer use, generic productivity software use, cloud based collaborative activities, basic HTML and JavaScript development.
I am already supplementing the current curriculum with these topics and more but it would be great to have expanded content with assessments that remains relevant longer.