CONTENT

Announcements: From the Desk of the President 

Events to start off 2022: Safer Internet Day 

VCE news: from the VCAA

DLTV PL Survey: Your Professional Learning needs in 2022-23 (win a prize!)

Australian STEM Video Game Challenge: Theme announced for 2020

Teacher supply shortfall: Digital Technologies teachers

Employment opportunity: Parade College


ANNOUNCEMENTS

From the desk of DLTV President Ben Gallagher

Today I’d like to focus on some of the amazing volunteers and supporters of DLTV. These are the people who tirelessly make things happen behind the scenes.

Welcome back to what looks to be a “bumpy start to 2022. If DLTV can support or help you in anyway please email or ring us

BREAKING NEWS: DIGICON 2022

We had an important meeting about DigiCon last week to make some critical decisions.

The message we have overwhelmingly received from our membership is that due the ongoing complexities/tensions of COVID-19 and the uncertainty of what February will look like for schools, our members do not feel comfortable having the conference in February and would prefer us to defer to mid-year, once the COVID situation is better resolved for teachers and students.

We are devastated to have to defer DigiCon, but we feel it is the right thing to do and we don’t want to add to the stress of teachers and school leaders in term one.

I hope this makes sense to you, and if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

As always reach out if we can support you in any way. We are only ever a phone call or an email away.

Cheers

Ben Gallagher

President DLTV and ACCE
(Australian Council for Computers in Education)


UPCOMING EVENTS

Safer Internet Day

Tuesday 8 February, 2022

This extremely worthwhile and important event always caught me out falling as it does at the very busy start of the school year. Hopefully you are able to include your students in this excellent program.

'With a theme once again of "Together for a better internet", the day will call upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people.'

For more information go to www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/whats-on/safer-internet-day-2022


VCE NEWS: from the VCAA 

Below is a raft of announcements from the VCAA to support teachers of VCE Applied Computing in 2022. (DLTV's VCE Subcommittee plans to complement the available Term One PL with a series of short webinars on specific topics relating to Units 1 & 2. These will be announced in our next newsletter.)


VCAA RESOURCES - Units 1 and 2 Applied Computing

  • Task development templates provide planning advice for each assessment task.

These can be found under the heading Support Material at the following link:

https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/curriculum/vce/vce-study-designs/computing/Pages/Index.aspx


VCAA RESOURCES - Units 3 and 4 Data Analytics

  • 2022 Administrative Information for school-based assessment
  • Software tools and functions document
  • Unit 3 Outcome 1: Task development templates, sample marking scheme and SAC task template.
  • Unit 4 Outcome 2: Task development templates, sample marking scheme and SAC task template.
  • Unit 3 Outcome 2 and Unit 4 Outcome 1 SAT: student planning template

You can find these resources at the following link:

https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/curriculum/vce/vce-study-designs/appliedcomputing-dataanalytics/Pages/index.aspx


VCAA RESOURCES - Units 3 and 4 Software Development

  • 2022 Administrative Information for school-based assessment
  • Software tools and functions document
  • Unit 3 Outcome 1: Task development templates, sample marking scheme and SAC task template.
  • Unit 4 Outcome 2: Task development templates, sample marking scheme and SAC task template.
  • Unit 3 Outcome 2 and Unit 4 Outcome 1 SAT: student planning template

You can find these resources at the following link:

https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/curriculum/vce/vce-study-designs/appliedcomputing-softwaredevelopment/Pages/index.aspx


VCAA PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

These webinars will follow the publishing of the SAT and Unit 3 School-based Assessment on-demand videos in February.

DLTV SURVEY: a chance to win a prize from Pakronics

We are looking to provide the very best in Professional Learning for our members in 2022. We have some great ideas however we'd appreciate your input. We are offering the chance to win a voucher to the value of $150 supplied from our generous sponsor Pakronics.
Access the survey now

More information about Pakronics can be found at www.pakronics.com.au


AUSTRALIAN STEM VIDEO GAME CHALLENGE

Registrations for The Australian STEM Video Game Challenge are set to start soon. Students for years 5- 12 are invited, along with teachers to take part in this year's Challenge.

The theme is Networks and more details can be found at https://www.stemgames.org.au/

VICTORIAN TEACHER SUPPLY AND DEMAND REPORT

A thought provoking article from the Age Newspaper Jan 19 2022 highlights the shortage of Digital Technologies teachers across the state. 

The Age report summarises aspects of the Victorian Teacher Supply and Demand Report 2020.

Although the report indicates that supply of registered teachers will meet demand until 2026 it notes, "Government schools continue to experience recruitment challenges for some teaching roles, exacerbated by location and subject area. In secondary schools across Victoria 19 per cent of roles advertised result in no appointment. Across primary schools, languages and digital technology subjects have the highest no appointment rate. design technology and digital technology have the highest no appointment rates in secondary schools. Recruitment to STEM subjects and special education continues to be difficult". (Victorian Teacher Supply and demand Report 2020, p.15)

The charts below were taken from the report and show the non-appointment rate of teachers in Victoria (2021).

The second chart paints a similar picture across the Primary sector.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Parade College is seeking to appoint a Teacher of Digital Technologies Years 7-12. The positions also requires the teaching of VCE Software Development.

For more information visit https://www.parade.vic.edu.au/school/employment


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