What next?
Malcolm Howard: "Once we move out of the skill development phase and into the early stages of the project we want to have this ongoing interaction, to actually record evidence from our discussions with students on the schedule."
Next year the finalisation of the Alternative Schedules will provide greater opportunity for ongoing teacher-student interaction, further streamlining and simplifying the assessment process.
The ICT department has been moving from providing paper-based resources for students to intranet-based delivery. Also they are moving to 'bite size' resources rather than trying to cover too much in any one resource. For example, they might provide a planning resource which covers milestones and key stages, and later provide another resource which focusses on a different aspect of planning. It is planned that all these small resources will be put on the school intranet in a variety of formats.
Screenshot from Luke's project
Malcolm is also considering the opportunities for incorporating the experience of practising technologists and people with wider ICT expertise. The class currently looks at a case study on the development of a CD-ROM by professional technologists; a focus for 2007 will be to look at other ways to incorporate practising technologists.
Students moving from Year 12 ICT to Year 13 can choose from an ICT Achievement Standards course or a Computing Unit Standards based course.
In the Year 13 ICT course, students develop advanced skills in a wider range of software applications. Students will follow an individualised programme where they specialise in areas that interest them - mixing and matching what is appropriate for their identified client issue. They will also choose an assessment programme that suits them.
