[Year 12 SofDev] Re: Re: Industry practice

[Timmer-Arends]

Hello Andrew

you are assuming of course that a study which deals only with those things relating directly to programming will attract students and bring them back in droves.

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: andrew barry 
  To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 10:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Re: Re: Industry practice


  Hi,

  No I havent received a off-topic email.
  I think i dont' want an debate on why we should keep the status quo with IT. I  thought the idea was to encourage students to undertake further IT courses beyond of yr12, and provide with them skills so they feel they can do it?

  With declining numbers in IT courses everywhere I believe we need to argue for change , as I have said before. If we don't initiate change then someone will do it for us, as business adopt a school policy has threatened. I want a programming subject to teach and another that deals with hands on with applications eg webpages,VBA etc. Spread the other issues as components of unit 1 and 2.

  If we don't inspire kids in VCE then they dont go onto IT courses, and this seems to be our current issue(except my classes where I have re jigged things :).
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