[Year 12 IT Apps] Informatics Timeline

[Sylvia Pastore]

Thanks Andrew.  Are there any prac Sats available to purchase. I'm just getting my head around the study design and am I right in that the students need to work out their own hypotheses and find their own data sets? 
It looks huge!

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> On 24 Nov 2015, at 9:30 pm, Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net> wrote:
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> hi Sylvia
> the SAT is big.  you will need the students to have their hypotheses discussed fairly early.
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> then they will need to go off and start finding data sets.
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> Have you done (for yourself) a practice SAT - so you have experienced what you want the students to do?
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> That way you can understand where to push them a little better and you can emphasise the milestones
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> The milestones need to be firm dates, invariant, no leeway, meet (or struggle and fail) dates.
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> How many hours do you expect the students to actually work on the SAT … out of school  and in school …
> It is big.
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> We are dealing with ideas for the SAT in our Headstart program
> e.g. what is a good hypothesis and how much data is enough data and over the holidays i expect them to gather data so we can suggest when enough is enough (string comes to mind)
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> Andrew
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> Andrew Shortell
> Educator
> CRC Melton
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> shortell at get2me.net (This List)
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>> On 24 Nov 2015, at 10:15 am, Sylvia Pastore <smp191172 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> I am in the process of planning my course next year and finding it a bit diffcult with only the first chapter of the text book. Can anyone tell me if its best to start with Outcome 2 or 1 and if so does anyone have a timeline to share.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Sylvia
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