Hello Like everyone else, I have been trying to ascertain where senior 'computing' fits within the Australian curriculum.
QSA have just put out a useful document: Preparing for the senior years The Senior Curriculum Landscape<http://lnk.ie/4VPJ/e=3294/http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/13636.html> paper provides an overview of how current QSA syllabuses will align with the Australian Curriculum senior courses. It notes specific issues for each learning area, giving some considerations for the future. The paper is at http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/downloads/approach/aus_curriculum_snr_landcape.pdf It maps both ITS and IPT into one, Information and Communications Technologies (Phase 3), which seems to have gathered another 's' on to Communications and Technology is expanded to Technologies from the ACARA documentation. I don't think this matters too much. What does matter is 1. "we" are on the national map as an entity in the senior years rather than subsumed into a mishmash Technologies 2. the two OP subjects we have will be fighting for space - not only against each other but against the other iterations of this in other states. There are some interesting times ahead. Hope you've all had a chance to post your opinion on ICT as a general capability - the public consultation closes on Monday 8th. Sorry to spoll everyone's weekend Marg Margaret Lloyd, Ph.D Associate Professor, Faculty of Education Phone: +61 7 313 83758 Fax: +61 7 313 83985 http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Lloyd,_Margaret.html CRICOS No. 00213J --- You are currently subscribed to qsiteict as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.edna.edu.au/u?id=705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77f09&n=T&l=qsiteict&o=1933918 or send a blank email to leave-1933918-705742.d42ea647e85be3beb25392eea1a77...@edna.edu.au
