<div dir="ltr">Hi George. <div><br></div><div>The new 2016 study design was released months ago as a consultation draft, and then (as I'm sure Paula would hasten to add) much local and international consultation with all sorts of stake-holders took place and the draft was refined and published recently.<div><br></div><div>In brief, "Computing" and "Informatics" are not temporary. They come into effect On 1 January 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure which philosophical imperative drove the removal of "information technology" from the study's name, but it seems to be a result of reinterpretation or broadening of the nature of the course content.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 December 2014 at 10:51, Ciotti, George W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ciotti.george.w@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">ciotti.george.w@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">
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<div>Related to Computational thinking…? Sorry, I must have missed the discussion on this. I'm just looking for some clarification on the term that embodies the year 11 IT course for 2016 and how it was arrived at or whether it is a temporary label etc.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>George Ciotti <<a href="mailto:ciotti.george.w@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">ciotti.george.w@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:27:32 +0000<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] [Year 12 SofDev] Release of reaccredited study design<br>
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<div>May I ask what the background thinking was…</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:08:54 +1100<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:sofdev@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev@edulists.com.au</a>>, Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List <<a href="mailto:yr11it@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">yr11it@edulists.com.au</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] [Year 12 SofDev] Release of reaccredited study design<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Paula. I love the smell of a fresh study design.
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<div>- It's good to see that "ease of use" has been removed from "efficiency" criteria in the glossary . That irked me for 5 years.</div>
<div>- Also pleasing to see that the ambiguity of the use of "accessibility" in the consultation draft has been resolved.</div>
<div>- Interesting see a new law added to the glossary's law list - 'Privacy and data protection act 2014'.</div>
<div>- It's good to see the PSM accept Agile.</div>
<div>- Not so pleasing to see that Evaluation Criteria are still included under the Design stage rather than Analysis. Grrr.</div>
<div>- Many refreshing and clarifying amendments to expression and punctuation.</div>
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<div>Until 31 December 2015, you can only access this study design via the Information Technology study page - from 1 January 2016 the study will appear under 'Computing'.</div>
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