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secondary schools it may be offered as a stand-alone subject; and for some it will be a blend of integrated and standalone. There are a range of factors that will influence the decision made by schools, but of course teacher expertise is one of these – schools
need to closely examine the content descriptions and determine who is best to design and deliver the learning programs so that students have the best opportunities of demonstrating the achievement standards. There are lots of decisions to be made!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Pasztor<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 28 July 2016 9:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Victorian Curriculum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">it is designed to be implanted into all domain areas. The difficulty may be getting teachers to teach algorithms and programming in our younger years. We are looking at using SNAP and I have changed my 9/10 electives to involve programming.
Game Maker, SNAP Java script in VET .<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Jul 28, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Paragreen, Chris J <<a href="mailto:paragreen.chris.j@edumail.vic.gov.au">paragreen.chris.j@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There’s the new Digital Technologies curriculum, which can be implemented into existing subjects (as my school will do), or can be implemented as a stand-alone subject. Separately, Mathematics now focusses also on coding some algorithms
used in mathematics. My understanding is that it’s not intended to add new algorithms content per se, but rather to be more conscious of the algorithms that are used. For example, to find the median number in a list, you first have to sort the list. We can
do it by hand, but we can also get technology to do it for us ….<br>
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Chris<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Baas, Benjamin B<br>
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2016 8:38 AM<br>
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Victorian Curriculum<br>
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My understanding is that they have weaved a bit of technology in most subject areas.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Ben.<br>
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From: <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Clements, David K<br>
Sent: Thursday, 28 July 2016 8:26 AM<br>
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Victorian Curriculum<br>
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A Mathematics teacher has just approached me about the new content that is included in their text for 2017. It’s very interesting that they are including sorting, specifically a selection sort algorithm!<br>
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I was straight into Sof Dev mode, flicking through the text and showing visualisations. Sounds like I will be a “special” guest in Year 8 Math next year.<br>
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Anyone noticed other subject changes including a link to technology / algorithms?<br>
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David Clements<br>
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