[Yr11 Information Technology] Tomorrow Sport - competition for Primary and Secondary students - invitation to participate

Tue Feb 1 11:46:03 EST 2011

Hi Paul

I would be interested in being involved in this with my Year 8 maths
students.
I am at Ashwood Secondary College.
Please send me any information to pass on to other staff members as
well.

Deborah Podhorodecki

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Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] Tomorrow Sport - competition for
Primary and Secondary students - invitation to participate

Dear Colleagues and apologies for the cross posts,

I am sending this email to let you know about the project we are
developing called Tomorrow Sport.  I hope that you or someone at your
school will be interested in participating in the pilot we will be
running with this project in Term 1 this year.  

Tomorrow Sport is an interactive Web 2.0 based site developed by the
Victorian Information Technology Teachers Association (VITTA) as part of
the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
(DEECD) FUSE (Find, Use, Share, Explore) website. The FUSE site is
intended to change the way teachers use technology and engage students
in topics that excite them.   

Tomorrow Sport is a teams-based competition with sport as the
inspiration and source material.  There is a competition for Years 7 and
8 students and another one for Years 5 and 6 students.

Teams of students complete a Challenge each week for six weeks.  While
each Challenge is based on a topic related to sport, each activity
involves collecting and analysing data, collaborating and producing a
response, such as a graph of a slide show or making a recording. It is
intended that each Challenge activity would take about one class per
week.    

Teams of students are joined into the competition by their teacher.
Teams will compete for the highest placing on a score ladder. 

The competition promotes mathematical/statistical literacy and is based
on sports-related activities and these activities promote the
development of numeracy, literacy, social and personal development,
citizenship, collaborative and cooperative learning.  Each Challenge
involves planning, conducting an activity, collecting data, preparing a
response and uploading to the Tomorrow Sport web site. As well teams
will also be required to review the work of their peers and further
points will be won.  A leader board will be created each week and
competition winners will eventually be announced.  We hope to have great
prizes for the winning teams.

The first version of Tomorrow Sport is based on Australian Rules
Football, but after the pilot we will be extending the competition to
include netball, soccer, cricket and hockey.  The competition will then
run a competition in three terms each year.

We have been in discussions with and will be working with other
organisations including the Australian Football League, SportZstats, the
National Sports Museum and ACHPER.  

We have teams of teachers/writers preparing Challenges and resource
materials.  As well, they have prepared materials linking to Curriculum
Standards and provided rubrics so you can use this work in as part of
your teaching, learning and assessment program.  

If you are interested, then please get back to me as soon as possible.
If you have a colleague who may be interested, then please pass this
message on.

We would like to hear from as many teachers in Primary and Secondary
schools as possible.  In the pilot running in term 1 2011, we would like
to include city and country schools, government and independent.   

Please note, if you were a delegate at the VITTA Conference in 2010,
then this email will have already been sent to you.  If you have already
responded, then your response has been noted and we will get back to you
very soon, so you do not need to respond again.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

Paul Wright
VITTA - Project Office
T: +61 3 9495 6836
F: +61 3 9495 6834
E: paulw at vitta.org.au
W: www.vitta.org.au
Suite 209, 134-136 Cambridge St,
Collingwood, VIC, 3066, Australia
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