[Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011

Fri Sep 10 10:23:22 EST 2010

M

Many of our kids are taking classes with fancy names and little content.
Many of them are going for classes that require less of them. Many of
the VCE kids are going to VCAL/VET.

Lots are going to more social based content classes. Environmental
Studies. Social Justice studies. Art.

My observation.

B

Brendyn Hancock

ICT Manager

Nagle College

PO Box 507

BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875

p 03 5152 6122 ext954

f 03 5152 6220

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 9:59 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011

Do you know where they're going instead?

On 10 September 2010 09:46, Brendyn Hancock <BHancock at nagle.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

Mark

Was just about to post this same discussion. We seem to be all
re-visiting this.

Nagle has an enrolment of 950. 2011 classes have just been drafted. Unit
1-2=8 students, Unit 3-4=1 student.

Interesting to note we can only raise 2 classes of 25 student for a term
elective of gamemaker in Y10 as well.

Trends are trending away from us...

Cheers

B

Brendyn Hancock

ICT Manager

Nagle College

PO Box 507

BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875

p 03 5152 6122 ext954

f 03 5152 6220

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 9:01 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] McKinnon classes 2011

It's really odd!  

ITA, which has run continuously forever with good numbers has barely
scraped a class together for next year by combining year elevens and
twelves into one small ITA class.

SD, which has only run every 3 or so years (with a small cohort when it
did run), is nearly over-subscribed.

There don't seem to be any clear local causes for such a great change of
attitude (e.g. changes of teachers or big changes in middle-years IT
offerings) so I can only put it down to either something in the water,
or the changes to the study design.

To be fair, I haven't heard kids explicitly blaming the ITA study
design, and for some reason they seem dead keen on programming in our
year 10 Info Systems elective. My year 11 IT classes have been dead
quiet for 2 weeks with the kids busily coding in VB6.  Last year I had
to beat them with chairs to finish the VB material... this year I can
sit up the front folding paper aeroplanes and clipping my toenails while
they beaver away and sort out problems within their own ranks.

Odd!

-- 
Mark Kelly
Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000, Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
VCE IT Lecture notes: http://vceit.com
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Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what
you put into it.

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Mark Kelly
Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
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Korma: the philosophy that what you get out of a curry depends on what
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