[Year 12 IT Apps] SACS and BYOD

Wed Feb 25 12:44:00 EST 2015

My two cents worth

Having SAC's that run over multi periods is pretty unique to VCE IT

The way you run and manage your VCE IT SAC's is really up to you

Every school probably has a different approach

Some schools allow notes, textbooks, network and internet access. Others run their SAC's a lot more like a test or an exam with no notes or assistance

Remember the purpose of an assessment task is discriminate between your top student down to your bottom (for lack of a better word) student . In other words, rank your students in order of their understanding of the content for each outcome

If you give a task that allows this discrimination or ranking to occur (with notes and network and internet access) then that is no problem

But if you allow notes, etc. and every students gets 100% then it defeats the purpose of assessment task. You are not really identifying the order of ability in your class

My approach and BYOD devices

Students here use their own personal laptop for SAC's.

I have network access turned off for these periods and collect the files from each student on USB at the end of the lesson

I'm happy for them during a SAC (and I cannot really stop them) from accessing the files on their laptop of the practice tasks we completed leading up to the SAC

I tell students this before the SAC to encourage them to complete all the practice tasks

But as mentioned earlier this is my method that works for me and each school needs a method that works for them

Anthony

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Today's Topics:

   1. SACS and BYOD (Lorraine Bignell)
   2. Re: SACS and BYOD (Natalie H)
   3. Re: SACS and BYOD (Mark)
   4. Re: SACS and BYOD (David B. Thomas)

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:33:57 +1100
From: "Lorraine Bignell" <lbignell at netspace.net.au>
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Hi All

I was wondering how people cope with SACs and BYOD. Do you allow students to have access to the internet (and all that that entails) during SACs?

Lorraine Bignell
Kingswood College

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I was wondering the same thing, but from the perspective of work authentication - what's to stop them working on tasks (or getting help from others) outside of class?

Natalie Heath (Marcellin College)

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> On 24 Feb 2015, at 9:33 pm, Lorraine Bignell <lbignell at netspace.net.au> wrote:
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> Hi All
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> I was wondering how people cope with SACs and BYOD. Do you allow students to have access to the internet (and all that that entails) during SACs?
>
> Lorraine Bignell
> Kingswood College
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:04:17 +1100
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Hi Lorraine. I didn't limit kids' access to resources during practical SACS, but tests were always done with pen and paper - for exam practice - so using the internet was never an issue then either.

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> Hi All
>
> I was wondering how people cope with SACs and BYOD. Do you allow
> students to have access to the internet (and all that that entails) during SACs?
>
> Lorraine Bignell
> Kingswood College
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:33:04 +1100
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Hi,
I was wondering the same thing when I asked the question about what papers they can take into the SAC a couple of days ago.

I now think that the answer is to let them use the internet. I doubt if they have time in the SAC to read up on how to analyse, design and develop a web site. By the time it comes to the SAC if they don't know the process by then it may be too late for them.

I have decided to ask them to submit an analysis document at the end of SAC lesson 1, a design document at the end of SAC lesson 2 and a web site at the end of SAC lesson 4. If they want to talk to their friends about how to do something in dreamweaver that is a good thing.

The students already know what the SAC is anyway it is published in the text book. It is only the brief that changes.

On 24 February 2015 at 22:08, Natalie H <natinga71 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing, but from the perspective of work
> authentication - what's to stop them working on tasks (or getting help
> from
> others) outside of class?
>
> Natalie Heath (Marcellin College)
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 24 Feb 2015, at 9:33 pm, Lorraine Bignell
> > <lbignell at netspace.net.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I was wondering how people cope with SACs and BYOD. Do you allow
> students to have access to the internet (and all that that entails)
> during SACs?
> >
> > Lorraine Bignell
> > Kingswood College
> > _______________________________________________
> > http://www.edulists.com.au - FAQ, resources, subscribe, unsubscribe
> > IT Applications Mailing List kindly supported by
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