<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the blocky games!! love them!!<div><br></div><div>I have a problem with my school techs being in charge of our hardware! (lets not start that debate) so we are running chromebooks with our year 7's and they have no where to save on the school network (all on the cloud, don't open that can of worms either. </div><div><br></div><div>So,..... we are looking at using Snap, the online version of Scratch/Scribble as a 'programming' environment!</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html">http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Poultney, Gordon A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Poultney.Gordon.A@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">Poultney.Gordon.A@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">hi Ian,<br>
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re: coding at Year 7<br>
<br>
I have a year 7 Philosophy & Thinking class - in the 'thinking' side there is an intro to coding.<br>
The sequence is something like this:<br>
<br>
1 Gamemaker - chase game, and mazes<br>
2 Blockly <a href="https://blockly-games.appspot.com" target="_blank">https://blockly-games.appspot.com</a> - the concepts of sequence, condition and looping (this is an awesome site)<br>
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3 Gamemaker part 2 or AppInventor<br>
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4 I may throw in some VB at the end for the keen beans.<br>
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All software/sites are freely available.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
gordon<br>
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Thanks for the ideas at year 7 Stephanie and also thanks to a few off the board messages.<br>
Our offerings to a large year seven cohort would approximately be a similar to yours at 2x45 minute sessions for a semester and I think we would be looking to include a variety of the elements you have outlined. Possibly a Microsoft Office 365 solution over a Google one as I have been trailing it recently and it works really great but otherwise the skills were exactly what I was thinking.<br>
I would like to get some sort of programming element in there like a small basic as coding seems to be important element to the Digital Technologies descriptors in the Australian Curriculum and an area that I really want to promote development and strength in.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 02:07:54 +0000<br>
From: Ian Fernee <<a href="mailto:IFernee@stpats.vic.edu.au">IFernee@stpats.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] junior school IT to increase skill<br>
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Dear all,<br>
Sorry for the cross thread but I am currently in the process of reviewing our junior school IT programme for 2015 and beyond with the vision of developing skills for senior school. Currently we do not offer a formal IT course at 7 and 8 and the subject is an elective through to year 12. We do offer some subjects at junior school that use a computer lab and address some interdisciplinary IT skills to a point but I feel that IT specific skills and knowledge is being left behind. There is also an intent to address the declining IT numbers as reviewed in the following article about subject choices in VCE <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html</a><br>
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The questions I have are:<br>
<br>
1) What types of skills are being taught at 7 and 8?<br>
2) What programs are being used to support this skill development or seen as essential in developing an IT literacy?<br>
3) Do schools with strong programming curriculum at the junior levels see an increase in VCE numbers?<br>
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Thanks<br>
<br>
Ian Fernee<br>
Head of IT Faculty<br>
St. Patrick's College Ballarat<br>
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] junior school IT to increase skill<br>
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At McKinnon we have compulsory year 7 ICT lessons -2x45 min lessons a week.<br>
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We focus on how to correctly use hardware, and the different aspects of<br>
software and how to correctly chose the right software for each project. We<br>
do some sort of investigation on an ICT topic (cyber safety, research,<br>
apps, Google Apps etc) then have a project that involves another piece of<br>
software, such as sound recording, digital timelines, photo/video stories,<br>
infographic, data visualisations, and then they can choose one of these<br>
methods for their final project.<br>
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We have a large cohort of middle years and VCE IT. 2014 and 2015 we have a<br>
FULL class of year 11 IT, and then we have both IT Apps and Soft Dev run in<br>
year 12.<br>
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Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions! I'm more than willing to<br>
help!!<br>
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Cheers<br>
Stephanie<br>
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On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Ian Fernee <<a href="mailto:IFernee@stpats.vic.edu.au">IFernee@stpats.vic.edu.au</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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> Dear all,<br>
><br>
> Sorry for the cross thread but I am currently in the process of reviewing<br>
> our junior school IT programme for 2015 and beyond with the vision of<br>
> developing skills for senior school. Currently we do not offer a formal IT<br>
> course at 7 and 8 and the subject is an elective through to year 12. We do<br>
> offer some subjects at junior school that use a computer lab and address<br>
> some interdisciplinary IT skills to a point but I feel that IT specific<br>
> skills and knowledge is being left behind. There is also an intent to<br>
> address the declining IT numbers as reviewed in the following article about<br>
> subject choices in VCE<br>
> <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/expertise/it-crowd-shrinking-as-vce-enrolments-plummet-20140907-10dizx.html</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> The questions I have are:<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> 1) What types of skills are being taught at 7 and 8?<br>
><br>
> 2) What programs are being used to support this skill development or seen<br>
> as essential in developing an IT literacy?<br>
><br>
> 3) Do schools with strong programming curriculum at the junior levels see<br>
> an increase in VCE numbers?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Thanks<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Ian Fernee<br>
><br>
> Head of IT Faculty<br>
><br>
> St. Patrick's College Ballarat<br>
><br>
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