<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>No I havent received a off-topic email.<br>I dont' want a debate on why we should keep the status quo with
IT. I want to encourage students to undertake further
IT courses beyond of yr12, and provide with them skills so they feel
they can do it?<br>
<br>With declining numbers in IT courses everywhere I believe we(everyone) need
to argue for change. If we don't initiate
change then someone will do it for us, eg 'business adopt a school
policy' has threatened change.</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.<br>
<br>If we don't inspire kids in VCE then they dont go onto IT courses. </blockquote><div>IT has to compete with other subjects like maths,sciences and english so we have to be mindful of the situation. Many teachers such as myself are on these 'contracts' where we need to inspire our students in what we do.<br>
My classes have plenty of scope for programming beyond the requirements ( where I have
re jigged things :).<br>
</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM, andrew barry <<a href="mailto:jagguy999@gmail.com">jagguy999@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>No I havent received a off-topic email.<br>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?<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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 :).<br>
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