TEACHING IT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Your experiences

Take a moment to reflect on your experience in an IT classroom, consider and discuss what you now of an IT classroom

Issues facing an IT teacher

Keeping up to date with new and emerging technology

Students knowing more than the teacher Distractions Cybersafety/Cyberbullying IT running as a discrete subject Being seen as the IT technician

IT structure

Year 7 & 8 – may run as a discrete subject, maybe incorporated into all subjects across the curriculum

Year 9 & 10 – often becomes an elective under a different guise. Gamemaking Digital Photgraphy Programming

VCE Unit 1 & 2 Unit 3 & 4 (two streams) VET IT

National Secondary School Computer Fund

All government schools received federal funding to provide students from 9 – 12 with access to a digital device with Netbooks/Notebooks becoming the DEECD’s preferred option

In theory all students from 9-12 should have access to their own device

Discuss what you have seen in Secondary Schools, your child’s school

Impact on IT teachers