[VELS] (no subject)

[Roland Gesthuizen]

No, I celebrate what we all have to offer and share. :-)

In the secondary system we are working to prepare students for a VCE as
independent and highly skilled learners and of course, some dignity is due
to technology teachers who have worked hard to help build up a new course
over the past decade, often from the ground up. Do well with what we have
and aspire to do our best.

We decided

   - Ask each secondary school teacher where we can best embed ICT into
   their coursework
   - Some ICT is delivered through dedicated offerings, the remainder
   becomes the responsibility of other teachers.
   - Encourage ICT rich classrooms but not make everything we do an ICT
   activity or progression point task.
   - Every activity in every learning area does not need an ICT focus or
   assessment task
   - IT dedicated classes should draw their contexts and build links with
   other subject areas
   - Use an IT tagged teacher to help assemble IT assessment tasks and
   assess student ICT competencies
   - Determine an ICT PP once but do it well, averaging a bigger bucket
   will not give us a better answer.

It isnt surprising that there is scope and some some good reasons for
schools to have specialist IT classes as standalone subjects. There is room
for us all to do wonderful things with our students. I guess we came about
it from a different direction
     http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/about/faq.html#22

Regards Roland

On 12/12/06, DANIELA LUPONE <luponed at columba.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> Also Roland if you go to the site below they do discuss integration.
> RememBER I do not disagree with you it's just the situation at my school has
> been looked at differently to yours
> http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/assessment/index.html#2
>
> I guess you really hated my course outline
>
> Daniela
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* vels-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:vels-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Monday, 11 December 2006 4:01 PM
> *To:* Victorian Essential Learning Standards
> *Subject:* Re: [VELS] A unit for Year 7 IT
>
> Odd, we are putting a small IT course back into our year 7 curriculum to
> make life easier for all the other teachers. They can still embed IT into
> their course but relax as the assessment has been done, knowing that a
> competent teacher has got the ball rolling with an IT course that draws its
> context from the other domains. Anybody interested in a course outline?
>
> Regards Roland
>
> On 11/12/06, DANIELA LUPONE <luponed at columba.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > I know there was some discussion about what people are doing with
> > regards to VELS and It
> >
> > I am putting together a course with regards to Year 7 IT. In putting
> > this together I am conscious that the school will probably get rid of Year 7
> > IT in the following year. I have tried to devleop on our existing course
> > where we use IT applications such as word, powerpoint and outlook.
> >
> > Would appreciate any criticism
> >
> > regards Daniela Lupone
> > St Columba's College
> > Essendon 3040
> > <<Tech_UP_7_Info_Wordprocessing_2007.doc>>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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