[Year 12 IPM] ITA ("IPM 2007") summary

[Robert Timmer-Arends]

Nick, Zach, and Laurie

how about by the end of March you all write a detailed alternative study
design - tell us what it should contain in some detail, not just headlines.
Make sure it's coherent and covers at least four semesters units.

I'd like to hear how you plan to save IT

Regards
Robert T-A
Brighton SC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Axaris" <na at willihigh.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] ITA ("IPM 2007") summary


> Apologies to anyone who may be offended by my "egghead" and "crud"
> comments I retract them as they were said in the heat of the moment.
>
>
> Don't take this personally.
> The course as I read it is a rehash of the old with a few new added bits.
> it needed a big spruce up and I'm afraid it hasn't happened.
> The bottom line is bums on seats and we won't see that.
> Students have moved past databases.
> THIS is why vet courses are so popular.
> quote: "The VET courses provide a
> very different experience for students, and we did not want to replicate
> that" end quote:
>
> There was no need to replicate the courses but after our debates on this
forum we should at least have incorporated elements from  them so that
student interest would be there.
>
> Who are we writing the courses for?
> the students or the traditionalists?
> I maintain that the course should be renamed IT office
administration.(ITOA)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Adrian Janson wrote:
> >
> >
> > When writing a course from the ground up - and this IS what we did, it
is
> > important to consider those elements that are core elements of our
> > discipline.  We have included these - and more.  The VET courses provide
a
> > very different experience for students, and we did not want to replicate
> > that.  The study design affords a wide range of applications and tasks
to be
> > completed - and it is up to us to write coursework to fit into our
schools
> > and tailored for our particular students.  I for one, will gladly post
my
> >
> >
> > Adrian Janson
> > Melbourne High School
> >
> >
>
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