[Year 12 IPM] IT in VELS
frankm at sjcs.melb.catholic.edu.au
frankm at sjcs.melb.catholic.edu.au
Mon Jun 5 22:59:16 EST 2006
Thanks Rod. Your email has clearly defined the issue some of us are battling.
Regards,
Frank
"Rod Kendall" <rod.kendall at overnewton.vic.edu.au> on Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:04:31 +1000 wrote:
> Dear All
>
> IT is a discreet subject area. ICT is a tool for the delivery of
> curriculum (by Teachers and Students). Below is an agreed definition and
> understanding that we have come to at my school. IT CANNOT be delivered
> in the curriculum, ICT skills can. If we say IT is delivered across the
> curriculum, we are saying, for example, that all teachers will talk
> about how a disk drive works, how an operating system is the interface
> between hardware and applications. If you believe that then you are
> sadly mistaken.
>
> Do not confuse IT and ICT
>
> VIVA IT Teachers!!
>
>
>
> Clarifying the difference between ICT and IT
>
>
>
> As part of the Interdisciplinary Strand in the VELS, it is understood
> that ICT underpins all other domains. 'Information and Communications
> Technology, as an interdisciplinary domain, focuses on providing
> students with the tools to transform their learning and to enrich their
> learning environment'. (V.E.L.S 2005) 'Information and communication
> technologies are the computing and communications facilities and
> features that variously support teaching, learning and a range of
> activities in education. Such ICT-related activities include, for
> example, the use of:
>
> * CD-ROM (eg. History) ;
> * Micro-computers with keyboards (eg literacy and writing) ;
> * Keyboards, effects and sequencers(eg music teaching);
> * Devices to facilitate communication for pupils with special
> needs( eg Special Education);
> * Electronic toys to develop spatial awareness and psycho-motor
> control( eg Physical Education);
> * Email (eg. Writing and sharing resources);
> * Video-conferencing (eg. L.O.T.E.);
> * Internet-based research (eg. geographical enquiry);
> * Integrated learning systems (eg. numeracy);
> * Communications technology to exchange administrative and
> assessment data.(QCA Schemes for Work for ICT)
>
>
>
> Whilst ICT is a secondary tool to the primary focus of enhancing
> learning in all areas of the curriculum IT (Information Technology) is a
> separate and distinct subject. 'The study of Information Technology
> focuses on the capacities, scope and limitations of hardware and
> software, and their implications to carry out specialized
> applications.'(V.C.A.A. Study Design 2006) Explicitly, 'IT capability at
> school age includes:
>
> · Understanding of how information is structured in a database;
>
> · Skills in searching the World Wide Web;
>
> · Understanding how computers can stimulate real processes eg
> predator-prey relationship;
>
> · Skills in using software to communicate effectively;
>
> · Understanding how ICT can be used to control things;
>
> · Knowledge of how to use ICT securely, with consideration to
> others' feelings, privacy and ownership of material.'(QCA Schemes of
> Work for ICT)
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Rod
>
> Rod Kendall
>
> Head of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
> Overnewton Anglican Community College
> 2-30 Overnewton Rd
> Keilor VIC 3036
> Direct Tel : 03 9334 0134
> Mobile: 0418 138 601
> Fax: 03 9336 1835
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Keith Richardson
> Sent: Mon 5/06/2006 6:20 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] IT in VELS
>
>
>
> Fellow IT teachers...
> I know that I sound like a broken record, but I firmly believe that we
> are fighting a losing battle unless we realize one fundamental
> psychological fact:
> "People will venture into 'dangerous risky new difficult territory'
> (read IT for non-IT teachers) ONLY if THEY feel a NEED for it."
>
> So unless that happens, GIVE UP!
>
> So then, my embattled and threatened and frustrated friends, our task is
> to 'deviously' develop strategies and machievellian tactics to achieve
> our ultimate goal - force the non-IT teachers into a desperate
> need-state that only we can satisfy. How you do it is up to you - maybe
> how you did it would be a great story to share here - but do it we must
> or our time of opportunity will fade away.
>
> I look forward to reading exciting true-life scenarios from the annals
> of successful IT Inspirers.
>
> Cheers, Keith
>
>
>
> On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:06:36 +1000, fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au said:
> > They see the relevance of IT in their subject areas but only as far as
> > typing up a document or maybe using a spread sheet - anything else is
> too
> > new. I could be really mean - the problem is their complete lack of
> > confidence in using computers. It is just in the way tooooooooo hard
> > basket for them. I know it comes back to me as the Learning Tech
> > co-ordinator that I need to go back over the same ground with them
> again
> > and again and again etc etc etc. They are under pressure to use
> > equipment, material, resources which they just dont understand and, in
> > some cases, dont want to understand. (I have a staff member who uses
> > their laptop daily but is proud of the fact that they have never sent
> an
> > email) In some ways I sympathise with them. They are in the
> predicament
> > of learning what VELS is all about and then being told - oh BTW you
> have
> > to include interpersonal skills, thinking skills and ICT skills into
> your
> > English/Maths/French class. For many teachers (and I am sure this wou
> > ld include some IT teachers) this is such a completely different
> > mind-set from what they are comfortable with that it just gets too
> much
> > for them. I also feel (and this is my personal opinion so please dont
> > shoot me) that as groups, it is more difficult for secondary teachers
> to
> > come to terms with these aspects of VELS than it is for primary
> > teachers.
> >
> > This is why it is so fundamental to me that we really argue our case.
> If
> > anything, because of the new domains, dimensions included in VELS, it
> is
> > imperative that we keep ICT as discrete subject.
> >
> > I am very lucky in that I have the year 7's for a semester, have
> various
> > electives through our 8 to 10 vertical elective program and am running
> > vce classes.
> > frankm at sjcs.melb.catholic.edu.au on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:11:16 +1000
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Fiona,
> > > No...no way...are you telling me that some teachers don't see the
> relevance of ICT in their KLA? Surely not...they will all happily
> integrate it into their units....won't they?
> > >
> > > On a serious note, Fiona, thanks for your input. I suspected this
> sort of thing was going to happen...but then again, if they do not want
> IT teachers teaching the basics....then....where are students going to
> get their ICT skills?????
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:45:17 +1000
> wrote:
> > > > following on from this - I have had two English teachers tell me
> that there is no place in their reports to include IT as a cross
> curricula subject because, wait for it, it (the IT VELS) is all about
> constructing web pages and things like that. When I asked them about IT
> for communicating I got told they couldn't get it to apply to English!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Michael Warden" <warden.michael.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Fri, 02
> Jun 2006 21:30:18 +1000 wrote:
> > > > > Here is my 2 cents worth....
> > > > >
> > > > > IT teachers should teach a Year 7 introductory course
> specialising in:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1). Effective File management procedures.
> > > > > 2). Word Processing of reports, letters and resumes suitable for
> "High
> > > > > School" level using suitable templates etc.
> > > > > 3). Effective Web Page authoring so students can (create) and/or
> edit their
> > > > > own web sites with suitably-formatted text, images and
> hyperlinks.
> > > > > 4). Spreadsheets to show students how to enter and select data
> to create
> > > > > effective graphs.
> > > > >
> > > > > No offense to any Eng/SOSE/Math/Sci teachers, but they may not
> have the
> > > > > necessary expertise and knowledge of correct layout/formats to
> effectively
> > > > > instruct the students.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any comments.....
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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