EDF5146 · Digital technologies in the secondary years B

Overview

This unit builds on EDF5145 Digital technologies in the secondary years A. It provides you with opportunities to continue developing your advanced knowledge and skills relevant to teaching about, with and through digital technologies but with a particular emphasis on senior levels in secondary schooling. This includes: the use of technologies to represent understandings, conceptualise and manage ideas, to create and communicate, to engage critically with the impacts of technology on society and education and to develop an understanding of the relationship between the digital technologies curriculum content and pedagogy. The unit also considers how we can sustain professional learning and the role of the digital technologies teacher more broadly in the school and in shaping policy.

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 education policy, theories, research principles and methods and use these to plan, resource, teach and assess digital technology lessons particularly in the senior levels at school
2. understand and implement relevant curriculum and pedagogy for learners in the post-compulsory Australian (Years 11 and 12) context and apply your knowledge of curriculum and pedagogy in the development of units of work appropriate for digital technology classes
3. develop ways in which digital technology can support teaching and learning across the school curriculum, including engagement with parents/carers and the wider school community
4. develop strategies to identify and meet ongoing professional learning needs
5. engage with professional networks and participate in conversations and debates pertinent to digital technology education
6. understand the instrumental role digital technology teachers can take in schools including professional learning of colleagues, management of technical services and strategic planning.

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.