EDF4066 · Developing technological knowledge

Overview

This unit supports you to explore the Technologies Learning Area and provides opportunities for you to develop the knowledge and skills relevant to the evaluation, appropriate selection, and creative use of digital technologies as part of the Technologies Learning Area. In particular, you will be encouraged to consider how digital technologies can be used to improve teaching, learning, and assessment. You will also be encouraged to develop understandings of policy, research, and broader influences such as the media as you engage with significant contemporary issues and debates in the Technologies Learning Area, including ethics, design thinking, and computational thinking. These contemporary issues and debates centre on social media use, while big data and algorithms form the basis of a critical understanding of ethical and compliance issues, policy and codes of conduct.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

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. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance, and structure of the content and teaching strategies of the Technologies Learning Area
2. use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge associated with the Technologies Learning Area to design learning sequences and lesson plans
3. implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students
4. demonstrate knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning
5. demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities where students’ time is spent on learning tasks
6. demonstrate knowledge of the relevant issues and select appropriate strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching
7. demonstrate an understanding of relevant policies and processes required for teachers in relation to the use of ICT.

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. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

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