[Year 12 IT Apps] SACS and BYOD

Tue Mar 17 16:10:56 EST 2015

I doubt every student would get 100% whichever method you use.

> From: asullivan at tps.vic.edu.au
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> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:44:00 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] SACS and BYOD
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> My two cents worth
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> Having SAC's that run over multi periods is pretty unique to VCE IT
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> The way you run and manage your VCE IT SAC's is really up to you
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> Every school probably has a different approach
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> My approach and BYOD devices
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> Students here use their own personal laptop for SAC's.
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> I have network access turned off for these periods and collect the files from each student on USB at the end of the lesson
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> 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
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> I tell students this before the SAC to encourage them to complete all the practice tasks
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> But as mentioned earlier this is my method that works for me and each school needs a method that works for them
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> Anthony
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> Anthony Sullivan
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>    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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> From: "Lorraine Bignell" <lbignell at netspace.net.au>
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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?
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> > Lorraine Bignell
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> From: Mark <mark at vceit.com>
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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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> On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Lorraine Bignell <lbignell at netspace.net.au>
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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?
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> > Lorraine Bignell
> > Kingswood College
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The students already know what the SAC is anyway it is published in the text book. It is only the brief that changes.
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> On 24 February 2015 at 22:08, Natalie H <natinga71 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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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)
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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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?
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> > > Lorraine Bignell
> > > Kingswood College
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