[Year 12 SofDev] Digital Technologies

Sun Mar 20 21:21:37 AEDT 2016

Hi Chris,

Our timetable setup – 4 Periods/day, Fortnightly Timetable
Yr 7 – Pure IT - 4 periods/fortnight – 1 Semester
Yr 8 – Combo with Materials Class – 4 periods/fortnight – 1 semester
Yr 9 – Pure IT – 4 Periods/Fortnight – 1 Semester
Yr 10 – Pure IT – 3 Periods/Fortnight – 1 Semester

Historically IT has been general capabilities – powerpoint, word, etc. we are transitioning to DigiTech this year.

Computational Thinking & Coding combined to create a direct relationship with VCE IT. Other areas of the curriculum we are still planning for Semester2 adoption.
Year 7
mBot (Scratch Coding environment – can see the Arduino code as it compiles. Great area for differentiation. – Start with Code.org tutorials (PlantsVs.Zombies/StarWars/etc))

Year 8
Design Focus.
Implementation with Laser Cutter. Possible extension to mBot after 2017 (Due to $$$).
Possible early implementation of Intel Genuino.

Year 9
Currently GameMaker – Planning to replace with alternative. That suits coding flow (As stated in Yr10)
New Elective in 2016 – Digital Communication (Focus on Photoshop, etc)

Year 10
Intel Genuino 101 – With Grove Starter Kit.
Design Project.
(Possibility for IoT if a student design requires it)
Elective – Unity3D – Amazing program and resources – Full curricular Framework is available. (I have also mapped this to the VicCurric and submitted for their document to be updated)
New Elective – 3D Printing & Programming – Extension of Yr10 Course.

Apologies for the lack of formatting, rush job, etc. But email me if you have any questions ☺

Kind Regards,

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Carlin Grieve
Learning Technologies Leading Teacher
Epping Secondary College
T: +61 3 9401 2599
W: www.eppingsc.vic.edu.au

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Baas, Benjamin B
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Hi Chris,

How much time do you have a week with the various year levels?

At Alkira we only see the year 7’s once a week for one semester, the sessions go for 80 minutes. For the year seven we cover basic IT skills and look it various programs they will be using as part of their education at high school.

We have a year 9 IT elective which is two 80 minute sessions a week. In the first term we did some games development using Unity (I probably won’t do that again as the Unity resources progressively got worse or none existent and Unity doesn’t run well on education department network.) For the second term students have an option of either Cyber Security where they cover a topic of the week and work on a CTF program or they can do 3D animation using Maya or Blender.

For our year 10 elective I think I’m going to focus on software development and run the students through a stripped down version of the SAT so students have some experience with SAT’s before they get to year 12.

Of course I have never checked to see if any of this aligns with the new curriculum.

Cheers,

Ben.

Benjamin Baas
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Digital Technologies

Hi All,

At Kew High School we’ve started our journey on implementing the Digital Technologies curriculum. Presently we don’t have any standalone I.T. classes in years 7-9, but that is one option that’s on the table. Is anyone out there willing to share what they’ve implemented this year, or perhaps what their thoughts are for next year?

Thanks,

Chris

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