[Yr7-10it] [Informatics] OT: New Digital Technologies Curriculum

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Kind of agree with Phyon, the Grok Learning Challenge and tutorials even run on iPads so it is easy enough to get a leg up for junior classes. I just did their HOC with a year 8 head-start / transition class.

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Regards Roland

> On 14 Dec 2015, at 10:16 am, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The main source of professional development for the Digital Technologies curriculum in Australia is the MOOCs run by CSER. From memory they focussed on JavaScript and Processing in the 7/8 course.  
> 
> For years 9 and 10 you could probably add Python into the mix - given that you'd probably want a language that is free, has no commercial allegiance,has good technical documentation and support, has an education support community, is in relatively widespread use, has a reasonably low barrier to entry, and has some application in the wider world. And isn't the same language that students have learned since year 3.
> 
> kp
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> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au <mailto:08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are investigating the new curriculum, does anybody have any good thoughts about suitable programming languages for these two criteria? Which mailing list is focusing on this area?
> 
> Years 7/8
> Develop and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions using a general-purpose programming language (VCDTCD043)
> 
> Year 9
> Develop modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures including using an object-oriented programming language (VCDTCD053)
> 
> Laurie Savage
> https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home <https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home>
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