[Year 12 SofDev] McKinnon classes 2011

[Howard, David]

Our numbers are strong and growing in all ICT related subjects here. Although only about 1% are the female students.


David Howard
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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 9:58 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] McKinnon classes 2011


I do remember  seeing some unimpressed expressions on the faces of prospective 2011 ITA candidates when they saw a summary of the new ITA course... the sort of look when you find you're getting toasted peanut butter sandwiches for Christmas lunch...

On 10 September 2010 09:42, Harper, Glenda J <harper.glenda.j at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:harper.glenda.j at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Same here at Carwatha


Glenda Harper
Educational Leader
Carwatha College P-12
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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> on behalf of Margaret Iaquinto
Sent: Fri 10/09/2010 9:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] McKinnon classes 2011


Same thing at this school. More kids in SD than ITA for 2011. The Year 10 programming elective has always run so that's not the factor.

But this school has had enrolments be as low as 5 for ITA and  as high as 19 (this year) in ITA.

Yep. It's odd.

Maggie

Margaret Iaquinto
Information Technology Coordinator

St Leonard's College
Brighton Campus
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>>> Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au<mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>> 9/10/2010 9:00 AM >>>
It's really odd!

ITA, which has run continuously forever with good numbers has barely scraped a class together for next year by combining year elevens and twelves into one small ITA class.

SD, which has only run every 3 or so years (with a small cohort when it did run), is nearly over-subscribed.

There don't seem to be any clear local causes for such a great change of attitude (e.g. changes of teachers or big changes in middle-years IT offerings) so I can only put it down to either something in the water, or the changes to the study design.

To be fair, I haven't heard kids explicitly blaming the ITA study design, and for some reason they seem dead keen on programming in our year 10 Info Systems elective. My year 11 IT classes have been dead quiet for 2 weeks with the kids busily coding in VB6. Last year I had to beat them with chairs to finish the VB material... this year I can sit up the front folding paper aeroplanes and clipping my toenails while they beaver away and sort out problems within their own ranks.

Odd!

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Mark Kelly
Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager
McKinnon Secondary College
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