[Yr7-10it] Consultation on Draft Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Dear colleagues

The Draft Australian Curriculum: Technologies is currently available for consultation. This document addresses two curriculum areas: Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies. Digital Technologies is a new subject, which focuses on students developing and applying computational thinking skills to create digital solutions. It is in additional to the ICT general capability, which focuses on students acquiring and applying ICT knowledge and skills to support learning.

The VCAA is organising a series of consultation sessions to inform Victoria's response to ACARA on this document. Next Wednesday (13 March) a notice to schools will be published by the VCAA outlining dates and registration details. Note that the closing date for registrations is 21 March.

The schedule is as follows:

*         26 March: face-to-face consultation for both Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies for primary teachers (4:30 - 6:30 pm at 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne)

*         22 April: face-to-face consultation for both Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies for secondary teachers (4:30 - 6:30 pm at 2 Treasury Place, East Melbourne)

*         23 April: online consultation for Design and Technologies (primary and secondary teachers)

*         24 April: online consultation for Digital Technologies (primary and secondary teachers)

As with any ACARA consultation, teachers can directly submit their feedback via the online survey accessed at the Australian Curriculum<http://consultation.australiancurriculum.edu.au/> website.

Please contact me if you have any queries regarding this consultation process.

Regards
Paula

Paula Christophersen
Curriculum Manager, Digital Technologies
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment
Authority
2 Lonsdale Street
MELBOURNE 3000
(03) 9032 1724
0407 043 110


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