[Year 12 IT Apps] A way to start term 4

[Mark]

Thank you, Litsa. I'm glad your girls liked it.

Sadly, being retired, unemployed and idle, I no longer can truly enjoy
holidays.
One can never really appreciate the pleasure without the pain.

But if it make you guys feel any better, when I have bad dreams at night
they always relate to being late to class, or not being able to find my
classroom.
This is after three years out of the classroom.
Teaching for a long time is not good for one's mental health!

On Monday, September 21, 2015, Litsa Tzelepis <htzelepis at msj.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Thanks mark.
>
> My girls were very excited to put a face to "mark kelly".
>
> As always, they were extremely impressed.
>
> Have a happy holiday and thank-you again, Litsa.
> ---
>
> On Monday, 21 September 2015, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, holiday-haters
>>
>> On Sunday I gave an ITA revision session at Trinity College to about 100
>> students on behalf of *Engage Education
>> <https://engageeducation.org.au/>*.
>>
>> At one point I asked how many of them had a basic grasp of what
>> normalisation was.
>>
>> I heard silence.
>> I saw 200 scared eyes.
>> Anyone who *thought* they knew the answer was terrified that I might ask
>> them to explain what normalisation was.
>>
>> I then asked how many of them knew what normalisation was *for*.
>>
>> I heard a dog bark miles away in Lygon Street. It might have been a
>> corgi. It might have had a limp. I think I heard it cough a little.
>> Meanwhile, the students in the room were silent and frozen.
>> I stared into 200 panicking eyes.
>> One hundred rabbits in the spotlight pleading: I'M NOT HERE.
>>
>> I did my best to explain *normalisation forms*, but I'd recommend that
>> whatever time *you* have left with your ITA darlings, you might want to
>> go over normalisation - from start to finish.
>>
>> And *ethical dilemmas*. They will never *really* understand that topic
>> at their age - as previous examiners' reports testify - but you can try.
>>
>> And you might want to go through basic *classic confusions*, e.g.
>> - efficiency, effectiveness
>> - validation, testing, evaluation.
>>
>> And techniques for planning and tackling the *8 or 10 mark question*
>> mini-essay would be wise.
>>
>> And of course, most kids traditionally know little about relevant
>> *legislation*.
>>
>> These are just suggestions.
>>
>> Examiners say that kids make the same mistakes in *every* ITA exam.
>> Check the examiners' reports (which are summarised in the vceit.com post
>> mortems) to see where kids usually go wrong.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>>
>> ​
>> “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
>> —L. M. Montgomery,
>> *​​Anne of Green Gables*
>>
>> Mark Kelly
>>
>>
>>
>> mark at vceit.com
>> http://vceit.com
>>
>
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>> Deep and meaningful quote goes HERE <<

Mark Kelly



mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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