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

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

Hi

What about the drag and drop languages eg. Gamemaker, Snap, Scratch,  
Turtleart?

 From memory Gamemaker supports branching, iteration, functions, data
structures and is object-oriented.

Tony

> 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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>> 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
>>
>> 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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