Annotated External Exemplars – Updated

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Apr 19

More Essential Resources

Annotated exemplars for external DT standards 91070 and 91074 have been updated and are available for viewing / download on the NZQA website.

See right for updated links.

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NZQA Consultation – 2781, 18753 & 18755

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Apr 18

NZQA is seeking feedback on the review of Computing unit standards 2781, 18753, and 18755. http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/about-us/consultations-and-reviews/.

In response to the sector requesting to retain these standards, NQS has reviewed these three standards.

Unit standard 2781 has been reviewed to address duplication with Level 1 achievement standard 91070.

Unit standard 18753 and 18755 have been reviewed to ensure they remain fit for purpose and national in scope.

The consultation period concludes on the 11th May 2012. 

Please complete the feedback form available on the consultation page if you have any comments or you would endorse the changes to these standards.

Ngā mihi

Gail Porter

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2011 Technology Assessment Report Available Now

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Apr 17

Essential Reading

The 2011 Technology Assessment Report (Level 1) is now available: 

91070 Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts of information management
ACHIEVEMENT
Candidates who were awarded Achievement for this standard demonstrated the
required skills and knowledge. They typically:
• identified an operating system and provided a general description of two or three key
features of that operating system
• identified at least two common software applications and provided a description of
more than one key feature of each software application
• described correct procedures for structuring and naming files and folders
• described a common technique used for compressing files
• described a procedure to manage a threat to data such as installing virus protection
software or performing regular back-ups
• described ethical issues related to information management

 

Click here to view the whole document.

 

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Digital Society Website – request for peer review

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Mar 4

Digital Society in Context is a new web site from the creators of the Teacher’s Lounge, presenting links, articles, videos and current affairs from around the web.  Linking to the DT strands, topics cover everything from ethics to Digital Information, to Computer Science.  Site content is updated regularly.

Call for help – the Library and Glossary are sections that need your contributions.  if you would like to support the project, please get in touch.

digitalsociety.net.nz

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DT PD Videos Available Now on YouTube

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Jan 26

Must see  – workshop sessions from the Christchurch NZACDITT Symposium 2011 and The Google CS4HS workshops

If you missed these great events, no problem!  The organisers have put together recordings from a broad range of sessions to support DT Teacher PD.

Highlights from CS4HS include NZCS keynote speakers, student perspectives and ways to unpack and assess the Computer Science and Programming knowledge standards, including exemplars.

Visit the Google CS4HS channel here

The videos from the NZACDITT Symposium cover a broad range of material including course planning, computer programming and digital media.

Visit the NZACDITT Christchurch Symposium 2011 channel here

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Programming & CS in Schools Survey Request

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Jan 26

From Tim Bell, University of Canterbury

Dear Teachers,

As part of the ongoing work to improve what is happening in computing in schools, we’d really appreciate it if you could complete our survey on Programming and Computer Science in schools. We’d love to hear from all high school Digital Technologies teachers, even if you’re not teaching Programming and Computer Science standards.

As an incentive, we’re giving $20 Westfield vouchers to the first 25 teachers to complete the full survey, and everyone else will be going in a draw for another 10 vouchers.

It’s completely confidential, and we’d love to get your honest opinions so that we can paint an accurate picture of what’s happening in NZ. Please encourage your colleagues to participate!

This project is being organised by Tim Bell (Canterbury), Peter Andreae (Victoria) and Anthony Robins (Otago).

The survey is at:

http://tinyurl.com/nzpcssurvey12

Many thanks,
Tim Bell
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Canterbury, NZ
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tim.bell/

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New 2.44 Computer Science Materials Available

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Jan 17

From Tim Bell & Heidi Newton, Canterbury University

At the CS4HS workshop and other events,  I’ve been presenting ideas for teaching the new 2.44 standard on Computer Science that becomes available this year.

By popular request we’ve written up the main ideas we’ve presented, along with some new ones, and have also put together a Powerpoint presentation on HCI plus a glossary.

A draft version of all this is available from:

http://nzacditt.org.nz/244-as91371-plan-of-work-and-accompanying-resources

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The Consultation Process Continues

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Dec 4

Following on from Niall Dinning’s initial consultation request in May, Cliff Harwood has now asked that Teachers of Digital Technologies review the latest level descriptors and Indicators of Progression.

NZACDITT have put together an online survey to collate your feedback by the Ministry’s 9th December deadline.

Go to the survey

You may want to review the documents prior to completing the survey:

DT Indicators of Progression

The original article posted in May 2011

Niall Dinning, National Co-ordinator of Technology, Education, MOE, has shared a revised draft of the updated Technology learning objectives with the DT teaching community – STKS+Objectives+(Updated+May+2011)+V2;

Read more

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Technology & Literacy Resources

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Dec 4

As you know some DT standards attract literacy credits.  There is comprehensive resource material to support the teaching of literacy within our DT programs and links are in the blogroll (see under Technology Alignment and Useful Organisations).  These are worth highlighting again, in time for summer planning:

Technology NZ – Team Solutions

  • Literacy in the Technology Curriculum

Techlink Technology Glossary

NZQA

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Level 2 Achievement Standards now good to go for 2012

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Dec 4

The new Level 2 Achievement Standards for Technology have been registered and are available from the NZQA website:

Digital Technologies

Generic Technology

Assessment materials from TKI are available from here.

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