[Year 12 SofDev] Draft study design

[Kent Beveridge]

Not choosing from an approved list to me raises concerns from a commercial perspective.
Does it :
1) Degrade the quality of syntactic and / or semantic skill set?
2) Cause a dramatic divergence away from industry used and expected knowledge?
3) Encourage a convergence of gaming programming languages in the classroom?
4) Affect how university first year courses that incorporate a programming component will be structured?
5) Actually cause students NOT to choose our IT subject?
6) Open the door for non-IT trained teaching staff to be given an IT teaching load thus causing IT    teaching staff to be seen as less needed?
7) Open a robotics option??
8) I will stop here...feel myself getting too deep!

Me and 2015....? No idea yet! Open to ideas and offers!
Considering applying for an examiner role, but not this year...WAYYY too busy!

My $1.50 worth.(inflation and a recursive algorithm!)


Kent Beveridge
VET IDMT, IT, MATHS teacher.

On 12 Apr 2014, at 10:16 am, "Mark" <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:

"The programming language used in both units does not have to be selected from a list approved by the VCAA, hence there is greater flexibility at the school level."

This will make many people happy.
I wonder how many schools will use Scratch*.

Anyway, this new SAT in ITA and SD to replace U3O2+U4O1 will be jolly interesting.
It's acknowledging the lost benefits of the good old deep-learning SAC days.

--

Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com

* Sadly for Scratch fans, "the VCAA will continue to publish a list of programming language capabilities."




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