EDF2079 · Educational technologies

Overview

This unit supports you to explore how digital technologies can be effectively and creatively used to improve teaching, learning and assessment in schools. It provides opportunities for you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to the critical evaluation, appropriate selection and creative use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. This includes understanding and interpreting state and national curricula, as well as teaching standards. You will be encouraged to develop critical perspectives on policy, research and broader influences such as the media. You will engage with significant contemporary issues and debates regarding digital technologies, such as equity of access, digital citizenship, cybersafety, ethics, design thinking, and computational thinking. Importantly, you will be encouraged to practise a critical approach while designing the integration of digital technologies into their teaching, including new and emerging approaches such as 'making', programming, game-based learning and flipped classrooms. While the unit requires you to learn how to use digital technologies, it has been designed to maximise learning for all, regardless of your familiarity with digital technologies.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. understand and design strategies for the effective integration of digital technologies within teaching, learning and assessment in the curriculum
2. select and use information and communication technologies (ICT) in appropriate and creative ways to plan lessons and engage students in their learning
3. discuss current and emerging trends in digital technologies and the implications for teaching and learning
4. critically evaluate research and practice in digital technology use in the curriculum
5. describe relevant issues and the strategies available to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.