[Year 12 SofDev] PD to increase IT knowledge

[Baas, Benjamin B]

Hi all,

I'm cross-posting this on all the list so everyone has a chance to read it and I apologise if I do not get my message across properly.

This email springs from an issues raised as I was speaking to other IT teachers yesterday. The issue being the lack of PD available for teachers to increase their IT knowledge or to learn about what is happening out in the world of IT today. If you were working in the IT industry not only would you be exposed to current practices but depending on the company you worked for there would be opportunities to attend PD on new or emerging technologies. I raise this issue to the IT edulists as when a new study design or curriculum is released, understandably, sometimes new concepts appear and older concepts disappear and as IT teachers we should be teaching our students what is relevant and correct.

So I ask what can we as a community of IT teachers do to make PD opportunities around IT knowledge/new technology/skill not just teaching available to us? This doesn't mean we have to organise and teach PD sessions ourselves, but we can if we want to and I'd be happy to organise something around how to do OO program in C#. But we can also encourage organisations like DLTV and maybe the various University's in Victoria to offer teacher friendly PD to improve our IT knowledge. I would just like there to be options beyond doing a new certificate or degree to be able to keep our IT knowledge up to date.

Lastly I think it would be a good idea instead of us all individually trying to maintain our IT knowledge by self-study it would be beneficial to everyone if we collaborated, we all know IT is an extremely large field contain many topics and that we have plenty of experts on this list.

Cheers,

Ben.

I hope I'm not just making a fool of myself.

Benjamin Baas
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