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Rethinking Junior IT Kevork Krozian, Forest Hill College k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au

Rethinking Junior IT Kevork Krozian, Forest Hill College k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au. Session Objectives. To stimulate thinking to audit current junior IT courses To look for options and new directions To keep VELS in mind as required

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Rethinking Junior IT Kevork Krozian, Forest Hill College k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au

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  1. Rethinking Junior IT Kevork Krozian, Forest Hill College k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au

  2. Session Objectives • To stimulate thinking to audit current junior IT courses • To look for options and new directions • To keep VELS in mind as required • To consider delivery models -- dedicated ICT vs across Key Learning Areas • Any other ideas

  3. Primary School snapshot Multiple feeder schools about 100 – 120 students

  4. Current Year 7 Dedicated ICT subject – full year 4 x (72min) periods per 3 week cycle Acknowledgments: Jillian O’Neill, Karly Horton - Forest Hill College

  5. Current Year 8 Dedicated ICT subject – full year 4 x (72min) periods per 3 week cycleAcknowledgments: Simon Brown- Forest Hill College

  6. Current Year 8 continued

  7. Current Year 9 Dedicated ICT subject - 1 semester only 4 x (72min) periods per 3 week cycleAcknowledgments: Simon Brown- Forest Hill College

  8. Current Year 10 Programming Elective – 1 semester only 4 x (72min) periods per week

  9. Delivery Structure - Yr 9 MyFHC Intranet Course Outline – Task list Course individual tasks worksheet Assessment – Task list with rubrics for assessment Reporting – rubrics descriptors transfer to report and VELS level

  10. Review what in junior IT ?? Focus on the Thinking Curriculum • Learning centred vs teacher ( teaching ) centred • Process driven vs content driven • Students setting own questions vs students answering only others questions • Shared experiences and learning vs private thought processes • Developing independent, critical, creative and caring learners • More ‘just in time’ vs ‘just in case’ learning • Mistakes to be learned from vs mistakes to be avoided or feared • Teacher fellow learner/collaborator vs expert source http://www.thinkingcurriculum.com/TradvsTOC.asp Focus on the ‘constructionists’ model – students learn by creating • more meaningful and transferable learning will result when students are given opportunities to construct knowledge from their own point of view • Different options for selecting project topics • Training students • Collecting information • Scaffolding process • Organising • Evaluation • Synthesis ( one group’s project linked to another group’s project ) • Assessment • source http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/id/models/powerpoint/constructionism.pdf

  11. Review what in junior IT ?? Teaching to, and awareness of, multiple intelligences • Linguistic intelligence ("word smart"): • Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart") • Spatial intelligence (“picture smart") • Musical intelligence (“music smart") • Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence ("body smart") • Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart") • Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart") • Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart") source http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm Enhancing cross-curricular learning, content and coordination • Why teach something twice if once will serve your purpose ? • Learning in Science with the “enquiry based approach” no different to learning in and with ICT • aligning teaching Excel skills with Maths Petrol vs LPG vs Diesel consumption project • aligning DVD production in ICT with Media • aligning Oral presentation in English with presentation in ICT • aligning LOTE with Gamemaker allowing other language instructions • aligning Heart Rate monitor use in HPE with uploading and analysing in Excel • Use of a database for the creation of a dating game perhaps in Human Development • Use of research skills to locate and verify Australian Standards in Technology • Kahootz type environments in ICT and Arts cross teaching and collaboration • Kahootz and animated LOTE story books • Music and sound editing in DVD production

  12. Review what in junior IT ?? Dedicated junior ICT vs non dedicated junior ICT classes • Local solutions will vary across the spectrum from one end to the other • At Forest Hill in mid 90s all junior ICT removed and then replaced 5 years later • Data on school models would be interesting and informative • Problem of non ICT qualified teachers assessing ICT skills, knowledge and content ?? • At University of Washington efforts underway to make Computer Science a compulsory component of any Science degree Content and options and new directions • Not necessarily cramming more into less space and time • Why all of Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Web authoring in depth ? Can we focus on one here and create time/space if we are using WYSIWYG ? • Alice - 3D programming www.alice.org • Blender – 3D animation and programming with Python www.blender.org • Scratch – programming scratch.mit.edu • Programming using mobile devices or PDAs • Quicktime VR - Virtual reality programming • Robotics - Does it have a place in junior IT , even at a simple level ? • Data Visualisation links -- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/ • Teacher Tube with extensive tutorials

  13. Review what in junior IT ?? Stronger links with the feeder Primary schools • Can we work with the Primary schools and define a minimum skill set to achieve by Grade 6? • Can some of these skills be taught as visits beyond the annual 45 mins Grade 5 orientation ? • Consider an ICT skills audit for new Year 7s • Support Primary teachers in delivery of ICT skills . Can we build bridges and collaborate ? • Projects eg. Kahootz learning activity for Grade 4 or 5 prepared by Year 7, 8 ? Stronger links with VCE ICT • Any vertical streaming ? Can a Yr 10 do a VCE subject ? What about a Year 9 ? • Why not insist on a minimum skill set before a student can do Yr 11 or 12 IT ? • Consider closer links between junior and VCE ICT teachers • Consider clearly communicating pathways for junior IT students towards VCE . Eg. How many of you would do Yr 10 programming and then Yr 11 IT if it had the following content …… ?

  14. Rethinking Junior ITwhere to now ? • To imagine the possibilities, to excite the staff and students • To join the journey of discovery and share the rewards of achievement and learning • I will be working on Alice and Blender for inclusion in junior IT for 2009 or 2010. • Join me and others on this and similar journeys on the lists • Invitation to join and participate on mailing lists • Specific Junior IT list has colleagues and resources for sharing. • Many ideas in this presentation came from this and related lists • http://www.edulists.com.au

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