<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Yes, the new design is less prescriptive than the current one (e.g. prescribed data types are no longer listed in each unit).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think we're being given a little more leash from VCAA. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">It's a pleasant change - but may be a bit scary to those who like to know exactly what needs to be taught and what will be examinable. A short leash and specific assessment parameters let teachers and textbook writers use their limited class time and pages much more efficiently.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've heard that VCAA is frowning on:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">(a) the inclusion of glossaries, and </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">(b) the use of "including..." in the key knowledge of new study designs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">This means that theory becomes more vague and increases the chances of textbooks and teachers teaching theory than the examiners won't be considering.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">As you mentioned, Adrian, teaching broad topics like "creative thinking techniques" raises many possible factors. The study design does not mention de Bono's six hats but it seems logical to cover it, but the exam cannot name that method or examine it directly. So teachers and writers have to wonder what to include and what to leave out. Fingernails will be bitten. Many posts here in 2016 will begin with the words, "Should I be teaching <theory topic> for this outcome?"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">And yes - Informatics U4O1KK02 "techniques for generating design ideas" also made me wonder whether to include de Bono's hats in the Informatics textbook. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I did.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">But then again, I also included the technique of locking people in a small room and beating them with a cricket bat until they contributed a good design idea. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The editor at Cengage made me take that out. Sigh. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Adrian, you're lucky being your own editor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is how I feel, sometimes...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><img src="http://myfunnymemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Dog-Is-His-Own-Master-Now-As-He-Walks-Across-The-Street-Holding-On-To-His-Leash_408x408.jpg" width="408" height="408"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 August 2015 at 13:27, Adrian Janson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:janson.adrian.a@gmail.com" target="_blank">janson.adrian.a@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That's right - no mobile devices or constraints like there is in the current study. Having gone through it all in a very granular fashion - there is much more that has been taken out than added (IMO!)<div><br></div><div>Adrian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Greetings, ethos-promoters,</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've just noticed something.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">In the current (2010-2015) study design, programming focuses on mobile devices. </div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">While mobile devices have done nothing but proliferate in the past few years, the new (2016-2019) SD study design does not even mention mobile devices or the constraints of their interfaces.</div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">That's odd. I wonder why.</div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px"><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"></div></span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Everyone you meet knows something you don't. You're surrounded by <div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">potential </div>teachers.</font></i></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZV04xVUpCaVJTbHc&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZaG9iYzlkRTE2YkVkS2x0Mk4vM1Fja3BYdFYwPQ"><br></div><div><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZN1ZEdkJ3aHdLUjA&revid=0B4DRNqu3Y8sZcENFZ21BMmczdy9FRzcvSmgrQ2w3d2M4Nkl3PQ"><br></div><div><a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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