[Yr11 Information Technology] book

Wed Feb 9 19:04:50 EST 2011

Andrew

I guess if you are planning to teach Year 11, I would look at what the 
*key knowledge and skill requirements are for the outcome (starting on 
page 19 of study design)*. If you then look at what is in the book. If 
you look at the study design and the book, you will find that the 
authors have spent a considerable amount of time writing content to 
support the study design and providing activities that support learning 
in these areas.

Sometimes the book might be useful, other times you would make the 
professional judgment to use other resources that perhaps you might have 
created or sourced by yourself.

It is worthwhile to spend the time to create an document which lists the 
key knowledge and skills required for each outcome. You can copy and 
paste these from the study design and then use it as a checklist to see 
what resources you need to source. Sorry if I sound like I am teaching 
you to suck eggs, but it is part of the preparation of teaching VCE and 
it ensures that you have all your bases covered, especially if you get 
audited.

In your table or Rubric you can then list which bits of the book are 
relevant and this would give you a good idea as to how much non-book 
resources you would have to create to support the learning in the 
Outcome. Giving this document to the kids will show them what they need 
to cover as well.

Example:

Key Knowledge

*                  Knowledge point                                    
                   Textbook reference                                
Learning Materials*
U1O1.1    Stages of the Problem Solving Methodology            page 
xii-xiv                                                In-house handout

                             vceit.com presentation on PSM

In the first few pages of the Year 11 text book has an*outcomes grid* 
that might be a good starting point for you to build this rubric, it is 
a worthwhile process to go through.

And yes, I am probably bias in my opinions of the usefulness of the book ..

Regards

Margaret Lawson

Currently on leave in 2011 from
St. Michael's Grammar School
mlawson at stmichaels.vic.edu.au

Y11 list goes to my home address so that I can control my school inbox ....

On 9/02/2011 6:10 PM, Townsley, Andrew A wrote:
> I guess what I am getting at is the book is optional for the purpose in achieving the outcomes unit 1/2.
> I still want to use the book though and can see the point in using it.
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> A.Townsley
> townsley.andrew.a at edumail.vic.gov.au
> Fountain Gate SC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Travis Parker
> Sent: Wed 9/02/2011 5:35 PM
> To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Yr11 Information Technology] book
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> I do quite a bit of theory, and whilst covering all of the book I tend to place a lot more emphasis on topics that will be continuing in IT Apps and SD. An exam style test at the end of each outcome is good, and I often throw in past year 12 exam questions (At the moment from IT Apps as U1O1 is now similar in some aspects to what was U3O1 - Not sure if it still is as I have no IT Apps this year?) which gets the students used to the format and style. Some multi choice and "screen dump" interpretation q's from spreadsheets in past IT Apps exams are what I will be using for Unit 1 AOS 1, and even be some design elements q's.
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> I find that it's easy to give them the knowledge, but to have them comprehend what an examiner is asking and making sure they answer a question in full (i.e. One sentence question asking 2 things) has been some things that have to be continually drilled in (And they are still getting some wrong come exam time!).
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> .....saying that, they do tend to ask "If this is IT why aren't we on the computers"!!!!
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> my 2c
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> Trav
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Townsley, Andrew A
> Sent: Wed 09/02/2011 16:59
> To: yr11it at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Yr11 Information Technology] book
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> Hi,
> MY students have  the Nelson book for units 1/2 as I guess many people have.
> My question is how much theory from this book are people teaching in class? The reason being is that students can pass the units with outcomes which dont really require much of the book. Maybe for an exam yes.
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> I do want to use it though so what are other people doing?
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> A.Townsley
> townsley.andrew.a at edumail.vic.gov.au
> Fountain Gate SC
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