[Yr7-10it] Essential skills

[Christophersen, Paula P]

Dear colleagues

I would like to support Paul's approach of focusing on key concepts.
This provides a foundation for transferability of knowledge and skills
to new situations.

On the VELS website, concept and skill charts have been published that
organise the ICT standards into key concepts and skills. These provide
the learning drivers for whatever context you choose.

http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/support/domainsupport/ict/concept.html

Regards
Paula

Paula Christophersen
ICT Curriculum Manager
VCAA
41 St Andrews Place
EAST MELBOURNE 3002
(03) 9651 4378

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Sent: Monday, 17 August 2009 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] Essential skills

I have been suggesting, for a couple of years, on and off, that we
should
be should be thinking in terms of "essential concepts" rather than
essential skills.  See http://pdchandler.wikispaces.com/

If I had my druthers, I'd be building into a year 7 course a unit on the
'big concepts' of logging in (see
http://pdchandler.wikispaces.com/Logging+In as a starter).  This would
be
several weeks long, possibly as long as term.  There's lots of important
skills and concepts under this umbrella, which reach into students
out-of-school lives, including aspects of internet safety.

Given my current role, I'd also be vying for a good chunk of visual
literacy; it might look like a unit on powerpoint, but it'd actually be
a
unit on visual literacy.

>
> After some intensive lobbying it looks like I might be successful in
> making I.T. a core subject in year 7 with a time alllowance of 2
> hours a fortnight.
>
> My curriculum director wants to know what are the essential skills
> that a student should have achieved at year 7 level.
>
> Some essential skills could include:
> 1. File Management
> 2. Word processing skills
> 3. Powerpoint presentations
> 4. Internet safety
>
> I need to write up a proposal by the end of the week, so I was
> looking for some feedback as to what you would consider essential IT
> skills.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Joyce
>
> Joyce Tabone
> Aitken College
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Dr Paul Chandler
Research Fellow
'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz)
project,
School of Education, University of New England

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