[Yr7-10it] Year 7-10 IT structures

[Alida Bonotto]

Your students have a good grasp of applications? Count yourself lucky! I 
have been teaching IT for ages and if I had a dollar for every time a 
student told me they had skills *when they really didn't*, I'd be 
rolling in moolah and living la dolce vita in the Caribbean!

Robert Minato wrote:
> Prior to 2007, all our yr7 classes did 2-3 periods a week for a 
> semester. This year, it is expected that IT is integrated into other 
> subjects. We have found that students arrive here with a good grasp of 
> applications. The yr7 do one or two periods intro to IT mainly to 
> familiarise non-apple students with the mac system. IT is available as 
> electives at yr9.
>
> Rob
>
> -- 
> Robert Minato
> Technology Leader
> Catholic College Wodonga
> 1 Bowman Crt
> Wodonga 3690
> 02 6043 5546
>
>
>
>
> On 11/10/07 8:58 PM, "Colin SUTTON" <oz.sutton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all
>
>     My school, Montmorency SC, has NO compulsory ICT!
>
>     A student can go through 6 years of schooling here and do NO
>     formal IT.
>
>     No other school I have ever taught in (2 in Vic, 3 in QLD and 4 in
>     the UK) have ever had this!
>
>     It seems unbelievable that in the Information Age students are not
>     formally taught ANY ICT.
>
>     They have to learn another language, do wood, metal, cooking and
>     sewing - useful and even essential - but the ONE thing none of
>     them can avoid is ICT!
>
>     Sure, many can play games and surf to sites, but they are not
>     formally taught a wide range of other useful or essentail skills.
>
>     Schools I have taught in elsewhere had at least one semester of
>     ICT at Year 7 (Yr 8 in QLD as secondary starts in Yr8).
>
>     Most had an elective system that required them to do at least ONE
>     or more units at 8/9 or even again in Yr 10.
>
>     Comments anyone?
>
>      
>     Regards
>
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