[Yr11 Information Technology] The meaning of U1O1-KK11 in the new study design.

[Mark]

Paula is probably having a siesta now so I won't disturb her. I imagine the
flamenco dancing lessons, all-night maraca practice, and those breakfast
margaritas take their toll.

I'm looking at the the key knowledge (KK) dotpoint 11 for the new study
design's U1O1 and I'm getting rather muddled.

It reads:

*- formats and conventions suitable for graphic solutions such as titles,
text styles, shapes, lines and arrows, sources of data and legend, colours
and contrasts*

It's unclear to me whether the list after "such as" is meant to be formats,
or conventions, or a messy mixture of both.

We all know we must not confuse formats and conventions, but this KK seems
to be doing that.

Or is it implying that "formats" (noun) is the same as "formatting" (verb),
which seems wrong to me. I've always understood "formats" to mean "ways of
presenting data or information" - e.g. you may choose to present data as a
graph, or a table. Each of these formats has its own conventions - e.g. the
graph has labelled axes; the table has bold headings and right-justified
numbers in columns.

So, in this KK, is a "title" a format or a convention? If you ask me, it's
neither, unless you argue that it's a convention that documents have titles.

The same applies to "lines and arrows" - is the KK saying they are formats
or conventions?

I get more muddled with the last two "and"s in "*sources of data and
legend, colours and contrasts".*

How do you guys read this? Does it mean...

**sources of data and [sources of] legend, *
**colours*
**contrasts.*

Which sounds weird.

Or does it mean

**sources of data*
**legend, *
**colours*
**contrasts.*

Which is also weird. But if so, should it not be "legends"?

And - once again - is "sources of data" a format or a convention? Neither,
IMO.

And, finally, we have "contrasts".
Is this referring to the difference between foreground and background
colours? If so, why is it plural?

The consultation draft of the new study design simply said "* *formats and
conventions suitable for different solutions".  *The bits that confuse me
were added in later versions, too late for us to offer official feedback.

What do you clever folk think the KK is saying?

-- 


*My grandfather suffered a terrible year fighting German soldiers and
civilians. But that was 2007, and he's a different man now.*

Mark Kelly


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