[Year 12 IPM] IPM New to list

[Mark Kelly]

Good thinking, 99.  I was thinking that one can teach Babylonian Go-Cart 
Manufacturing and Networking Protocols in the same class - but will 
either audience really learn anything?

It's possible - if you logically divide the class into 2 segments and 
teach them independently as in a one-room country primary school.

The common content between IPM and VET is rare and accidental - and 
often contradictory.  I've written texts for IPM and VET and had to 
wonder where the two courses had the same philosophy and approach.

VET is a practical, industry skills-based course; IPM is white-collar 
management theory.  They really don't combine well.

I can only hope the IPM+VET scenario is an aberration... but with the 
way IT enrolments are going, it may be the fatal way of the IT future.

All the more reason to have IT unit 1 renamed "Data Fondling and 
Information Excitation"...  :-)


Meadows, Roslyn M wrote:
> I wonder if History teachers are ever asked to teach Australian History and Revolutions in the same class.?
>  
> Just because IPM and VET Cert III both involve computers does not mean they can necessarily be taught effectively at the same time in the same room. 
>  
> Good Luck Colin - I hope your DP is prepared to share his experiences and strategies with you.
>  
> Ros Meadows
> Bentleigh SC
> 9579 1044
> meadows.roslyn.m at edumail.vic.gov.au
>  
> "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." H. H. Williams 
> 
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> 
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Robert Minato
> Sent: Mon 12/5/2005 2:22 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] IPM New to list
> 
> 
> 
> You're quite right, it's not my idea.
> 
> Haven't had a chance to look at it much as yet. My DP tells me it can be
> done, he is doing it now.
> 
> 
> --
> Robert Minato
> Teacher
> Catholic College Wodonga
> 02 6059 1222
> 
> 
> On 5/12/05 1:14 PM, "Lel, Ronald A" <lel.ronald.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
>>On Behalf Of Colin White
>>Sent: Sunday, 4 December 2005 7:37 PM
>>To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
>>Teachers'MailingList
>>Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] IPM New to list
>>
>>
>>Welcome Robert,
>>
>>As an ex NSW teacher (living in Albury) I have now moved to Portland,
>>Victoria and just taught IPM this year for the first time.
>>
>>Next year I am teaching IPM again and the first year of VET IT (cert 3)
>>in a
>>combined class.
>>
>>snipped
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>>Colin White
>>Heywood & District Secondary College
>>
>>Snipped
>>
>>As a matter of interested, I would like to know how you are going to do
>>this. The two subjects are quite different. I guess that this was
>>certainly not your idea.
>>
>>Ron Lel
>>Croydon Secondary College
>>


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