[Informatics] [Year 12 SofDev] PD to increase IT knowledge

[ken price]

https://acs.org.au/branches/victoria/events/upcoming-events might be a
starting point.

kp

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Michael Ha <michaelha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> If you have any specific areas you like to upskill in you should pitch the
> topics to DLTV and see if they can make it happen. If you are asking I'm
> sure many of us are probably thinking the same thing.
>
> Apart from hearing from industry are there any other topics you can think
> of?
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Thursday, 21 April 2016, Baas, Benjamin B <
> baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m cross-posting this on all the list so everyone has a chance to read
>> it and I apologise if I do not get my message across properly.
>>
>>
>>
>> This email springs from an issues raised as I was speaking to other IT
>> teachers yesterday. The issue being the lack of PD available for teachers
>> to increase their IT knowledge or to learn about what is happening out in
>> the world of IT today. If you were working in the IT industry not only
>> would you be exposed to current practices but depending on the company you
>> worked for there would be opportunities to attend PD on new or emerging
>> technologies. I raise this issue to the IT edulists as when a new study
>> design or curriculum is released, understandably, sometimes new concepts
>> appear and older concepts disappear and as IT teachers we should be
>> teaching our students what is relevant and correct.
>>
>>
>>
>> So I ask what can we as a community of IT teachers do to make PD
>> opportunities around IT knowledge/new technology/skill not just teaching
>> available to us? This doesn’t mean we have to organise and teach PD
>> sessions ourselves, but we can if we want to and I’d be happy to organise
>> something around how to do OO program in C#. But we can also encourage
>> organisations like DLTV and maybe the various University’s in Victoria to
>> offer teacher friendly PD to improve our IT knowledge. I would just like
>> there to be options beyond doing a new certificate or degree to be able to
>> keep our IT knowledge up to date.
>>
>>
>>
>> Lastly I think it would be a good idea instead of us all individually
>> trying to maintain our IT knowledge by self-study it would be beneficial to
>> everyone if we collaborated, we all know IT is an extremely large field
>> contain many topics and that we have plenty of experts on this list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope I’m not just making a fool of myself.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Benjamin Baas*
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President, TASITE http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au
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