Archive for December 4th, 2011

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;

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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

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

Digital Technologies

Generic Technology

Updated 08/09/12

Assessment materials from TKI are available from here.