[clug] [OT] Any LA or CLUG reaction to the new ALP Policy

[Ben Davies]

On 19 May 2015 at 10:09,  <Joel.Cowey at csiro.au> wrote:
> The new Digital Technologies curriculum (http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale) will be fully endorsed [fingers crossed] before the end of the year and some states, including the ACT, are expected to introduce it starting next year. The content will start in kindy! http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/digital-technologies/curriculum/f-10?layout=1  Obviously with some pretty basic concepts.  This is going to be scary for a good number of our teachers who have no background in IT themselves.

The topic of IT in the national curriculum came up in this PyCon AU
2014 keynote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVv7fCwVbp4

>From hazy memories, the speaker went into some curriculum details for
different school years, but I can't recall anything beyond that :-\

Ben