[Year 12 SofDev] RE: Industry practice - Tertiary links

[Jack Matthews]

"Other conceivable roles for VCE  IT would be to give students "advanced standing" so that they might  skip IT 101"

This is actually a really good idea.  If students knew they could get a subject credit for first year and alleviate the load a little I think you would definitely get students joining the course, especially if you marketed it in this way.  This would of course require consultation and agreement from universities.  Maybe people could do a quick survey in their classes to see what the students think.

Jack Matthews
Former Teacher at Yarram Secondary College



> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:23:41 +1000
> From: sb at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] RE: Industry practice - Tertiary links
> 
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Beattie, Kelly L
> <beattie.kelly.l at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> > Ultimately what we should be doing as educators is communicating with the
> > tertiary institutions and making Senior IT something that they would
> > consider to be a prerequisite for their courses.
> 
> It seems unlikely that tertiary IT courses would cut off a large part
> of their market by requiring VCE IT.  Other conceivable roles for VCE
> IT would be to give students "advanced standing" so that they might
> skip IT 101, or (in the case of students not doing an IT major) to
> give them valuable knowledge and skills that complement any subject
> they choose to do.
> 
> Another approach would be to reinvent VCE IT as "informatics", and
> focus on accessing, manipulating and visualising information.
> Programming is still central in such a course, but it is programming
> with a significant external purpose rather than programming for its
> own sake.  It can be marketted across the board, and not seen as a
> nerdy subject.  This is how we've been reprofiling IT at Melbourne
> University, and it has attracted many students from outside our usual
> catchment (e.g. commerce).
> 
> -Steven Bird
> http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~sb/
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