[Year 12 SofDev] junior school IT to increase skill development in VCE

[Stephanie Polan]

At McKinnon we have compulsory year 7 ICT lessons -2x45 min lessons a week.

We focus on how to correctly use hardware, and the different aspects of
software and how to correctly chose the right software for each project. We
do some sort of investigation on an ICT topic (cyber safety, research,
apps, Google Apps etc) then have a project that involves another piece of
software, such as sound recording, digital timelines, photo/video stories,
infographic, data visualisations, and then they can choose one of these
methods for their final project.


We have a large cohort of middle years and VCE IT. 2014 and 2015 we have a
FULL class of year 11 IT, and then we have both IT Apps and Soft Dev run in
year 12.


Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions! I'm more than willing to
help!!

Cheers
Stephanie

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Ian Fernee <IFernee at stpats.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

>   Dear all,
>
> Sorry for the cross thread but I am currently in the process of reviewing
> our junior school IT programme for 2015 and beyond with the vision of
> developing skills for senior school. Currently we do not offer a formal IT
> course at 7 and 8 and the subject is an elective through to year 12. We do
> offer some subjects at junior school that use a computer lab and address
> some interdisciplinary IT skills to a point but I feel that IT specific
> skills and knowledge is being left behind. There is also an intent to
> address the declining IT numbers as reviewed in the following article about
> subject choices in VCE
> http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html
>
>
>
> The questions I have are:
>
>
>
> 1) What types of skills are being taught at 7 and 8?
>
> 2) What programs are being used to support this skill development or seen
> as essential in developing an IT literacy?
>
> 3) Do schools with strong programming curriculum at the junior levels see
> an increase in VCE numbers?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Ian Fernee
>
> Head of IT Faculty
>
> St. Patrick's College Ballarat
>
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Miss Polan
McKinnon SC
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