[Yr11 Information Technology] PD to increase IT knowledge

[Diana HATCH]

Well said!

Every year we are asked by our school to indicate PD in which we would have
an interest attending.
Every year I put down IT and then receive all the information on the
various PDs on offer - nearly all of which are unrelated to IT as its own
subject area. Someone is probably wondering why I don't go to any of them.

Diana

On 21 April 2016 at 11:12, Baas, Benjamin B <
baas.benjamin.b at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I’m cross-posting this on all the list so everyone has a chance to read it
> and I apologise if I do not get my message across properly.
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> This email springs from an issues raised as I was speaking to other IT
> teachers yesterday. The issue being the lack of PD available for teachers
> to increase their IT knowledge or to learn about what is happening out in
> the world of IT today. If you were working in the IT industry not only
> would you be exposed to current practices but depending on the company you
> worked for there would be opportunities to attend PD on new or emerging
> technologies. I raise this issue to the IT edulists as when a new study
> design or curriculum is released, understandably, sometimes new concepts
> appear and older concepts disappear and as IT teachers we should be
> teaching our students what is relevant and correct.
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> So I ask what can we as a community of IT teachers do to make PD
> opportunities around IT knowledge/new technology/skill not just teaching
> available to us? This doesn’t mean we have to organise and teach PD
> sessions ourselves, but we can if we want to and I’d be happy to organise
> something around how to do OO program in C#. But we can also encourage
> organisations like DLTV and maybe the various University’s in Victoria to
> offer teacher friendly PD to improve our IT knowledge. I would just like
> there to be options beyond doing a new certificate or degree to be able to
> keep our IT knowledge up to date.
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> Lastly I think it would be a good idea instead of us all individually
> trying to maintain our IT knowledge by self-study it would be beneficial to
> everyone if we collaborated, we all know IT is an extremely large field
> contain many topics and that we have plenty of experts on this list.
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> Cheers,
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> Ben.
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> I hope I’m not just making a fool of myself.
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> *Benjamin Baas*
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*Diana HatchTimetabler, ICT Learning Area ManagerMcKinnon Secondary College*

*Diana Hatch*
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