[Year 12 SofDev] SD - consultation version

[Victoria Farrell]

They are not paying you enough, Adrian!

Excellent and thorough work! Thank you!!!

Vic

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Adrian Janson <janson.adrian.a at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have attached v2 of my spreadsheet - tonight I went through the
> Glossary! So I thought I would write out some of my thoughts and would be
> very interested to hear what others think! These are in no particular order
> - and also - it is highly possible that I may say something has been
> removed or added and it is in fact somewhere else (please let me know!). I
> feel like a lot has come out - and not much has been added. I felt that the
> 2016-2019 SD study design did this as well (removed material but did really
> add much). It doesn't feel like there is enough.
>
> *Glossary*
> The terms relevant for SD has been expanded from 13 to 21! I feel that
> there is a massive amount of redundancy in these terms and definitions -
> PLUS - I feel it is a rabbit warren that can easily trap teachers. I found
> myself thinking "why can't the whole course be laid out in the AOS, KK and
> KS?". Having been on Study Design panels before, I know that Glossary terms
> can be helpful to define the scope of what can be very broad concepts - but
> - by the same token, if you are a teacher trying to construct a course
> based on this study (as currently shown), you will be constantly flicking
> back and forth between KK points and the Glossary and could miss things out.
>
> Here are a few specific things I noticed:
> 'Data structures' mentions stacks, queues and linked lists yet these are
> not mentioned anywhere in the Study Design!
> The definition of Design Thinking expands on the ways that design ideas
> can be generated.
> Spam Act and Health Records Act are not in SD but are mentioned in the
> Legal Requirements def. (confusing, but previous study did this too).
> Terms are listed here that feel redundant - like 'project management',
> 'managing files', 'naming conventions', 'testing techniques' and
> 'validation'. They seem to just repeat what is in existing KK points.
> A 'Psuedocode' term has been added that lists some conventions - which
> means that teachers will need to use these!
>
> *AOS3.1*
> + plain text and CSV files
> + classes
> The wording has been changed from 'techniques for linear and binary
> searching' to 'algorithms for...' - which makes me wonder if this implies
> that students will need to memorise algorithms for these as opposed to
> (merely) understanding the process?
>
> *AOS3.2*
> + agile, waterfall and spiral - new development technique
> + critical path added to PM - which is an easy (and logical) addition
> - styles of modern application architecture
>
> *AOS4.1*
> Selection and quick sort are still there, but removed is the part which
> mentions selecting them based on purpose and comparing them in terms of
> complexity and sort time. Strange to me - as you would need to be
> mentioning these in teaching these sorts anyway!
>
> *AOS4.2*
> (this is where you need to queue up that Jurassic Park clip of Samuel L
> Jackson as he turns off the main power....)
> Information systems are mostly gone. There are small mentions of goals and
> objectives, but it isn't clear.
> Characteristics of data (accuracy, timeliness, reasonableness,
> authenticity, correctness) - gone
> - Spam Act
> - conflict, data integrity, data mining, adv / disadv for stakeholders
> + security strategies, risk management
> - networks, VPNs, technical underpinnings - all gone
> - types and causes of threats
> + virtual testing environments, exploits, ways to protect from these
> threats (and others)
>
> Cheers,
> Adrian
>
>
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