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color=#0000ff size=2>This principles and theory I learned year back are still
good. I'm just getting tied of learning another app every year, and been
expected to be a master of it. I'd expect it to be the some with most of
you. I've enjoyed learning Flash & Dreamweaver, and really wish I had
the time to play with those tools.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=750330301-12032009>I am use to the technical
hurdle to be able to use software, but most are not. </SPAN>The only
scale-able PD I could easily see happening would be with very simple
technology. Simple in very easy to use and understand. Like
audacity for example, which looks and acts just like an old tape deck, and for
those enthusiastic staff there are advance functions to get more out of
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Kent Beveridge<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 12 March 2009 11:46
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Yep, I concur with you Ros
about the updating and how it is perceived by other KLA's. I too am a qual'd
maths teacher (but not with any maths load this year), so I understand about the
discussion on 'change'. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>We are currently undergoing
the planning paperwork thing this year...oh, the joys! As if staying
current wasnt enough, now i must actually 'plan' for it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>ah, well, such is
etc..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Kent.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au on behalf
of Ros Meadows<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 3/11/2009 8:44 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Year 7 - 10
Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Yr7-10it]
Tools for Interactivity (Was: Missed the boat?)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Yes Ken - I really believe that the staff at my school
perhaps think I just absorb my skills and knowledge by osmosis or some other
mystic transference process every time I boot up my computer! Little do they
realise how much time we spend keeping up to date! Yet in the past when I have
offered to give an ICT session at lunchtime or after school only 2 or 3 staff
will turn up (and they are usually the "converted")!<BR>Give me an English novel
to read any day! Although I must say I doubt I could cope with trying to read
students' essays on the novel!!! <BR>Cheers<BR>Ros<BR></FONT><BR>ken price
wrote:
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<DIV>The task of remaining current with ICT is a massive issue. I've been
both a Mathematics teacher and a Computing teacher and you are most certainly
correct as far as content is concerned. 90% of school maths content is the
same as it was 40 years ago - and a quick look at textbooks will verify that
(pedagogy however has changed significantly though). Computing content has a
very short half-life.</DIV>
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<DIV>Some time back we changed the mandated programming language in one IT
subject from Pascal to Java, One of my colleagues in another school asked
their principal for some time to learn this language and update their notes,
assignments etc. The response was "I used to teach English and we had a new
novel every year. What's so hard about changing a computer language?"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And it was said in all seriousness. </DIV>
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<DIV>The nature of ICT and the workload in remaining current is not
well-understood by most people outside of it. Some people find even a change
of web browser challenging, but at a deeper level of study the change is
much more demanding of course. The most successful PD models I have seen rely
heavily on the generosity of the teachers involved and their willingness to go
beyond the minimum. This is of course impossible to mandate across the
board. It isn't always about sending people to training, though that has
its place.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Any suggestions on workable models for PD in the use of ICT tools
generally, or the ones discussed here specifically? (workable = able to be
scaled to all staff, not just the enthusiastic.)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Ken, TASITE Tasmania<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Bane, Janet A <<A
href="mailto:bane.janet.a@edumail.vic.gov.au"
target=_blank>bane.janet.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</A>> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote><BR>I often think I should have been a maths
teacher - algebra and trigonometry probably haven't changed much in the past
few decades (sorry to any maths teacher if I have offended you), but if you
think of the giant strides made in the field of computers and ICT, its no
wonder schools can't keep
pace.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>_______________________________________________
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