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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

thanks Tony, good point. 

I should have added that we don’t toss kids to Python in a rush, first covering Scratch and Gamemaker to get their sea-legs with coding etc. :-)

Regards Roland

> On 14 Dec 2015, at 11:30 AM, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
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> Hi
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> 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
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>> 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
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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
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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
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