Tuesday 4 June 2013

EduTech - Margaret Lloyd - QSITE President

Putting Policy and curriculum into Practise.

Let's Contextualise what we have been hearing about.



  • Tantalising predicament that we find ourselves in right now with ICT in school
  • 2 National agencies - policy has caught up with best practice
  • We now have the challenge of making the extraordinary into ordinary
  • AITSL - Professional STandards for Teachers - given us 3 standards that explicitly reference ICT - ICT    These are aspirations.     Also - 3.4  - select and use resources including ICT.  Also 4.5 - Use ICT safely, ethically and responsibly
  • AITSL - accrediting initial teacher programs - 7 standards.  
  • ACARA - ICT as a general capability.  Has a formal place in all learning areas.  Also Digital Capabilities.
  • ICT as a general capability- one of 7 along with literacy, numeracy.  Change and transformation only happens if you have every piece of the puzzle together.   What is it - multimodality, real data collected by Science, Tagging in GoogleEarth, blogging, collaborative    WELL BEYOND PPT  It is not a competence - it is a capability.  Look at round spherical diagram.   ICT Capability at centre.   Creating with around that.


  • Digital Technologies - very different to ICT as a capability.  Computational thinking is a focus.  Amplifying thinking and problem solving.    We need to consider what computational thinking means for our kids and this curriculum.
  • ACARA - General capabilities are visible in all areas of the curriculum.
  • example - Location - based mobile adventures.  

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