School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    ICT-Enhanced Curriculum
  • Unit Code

    CUR1212
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vincenzina Dorothea CORDERY

Description

This unit will equip beginning teachers with the digital pedagogy skills and appropriate pedagogical frameworks to build and deliver curriculum for the 21st-century educational setting. It is designed to develop a research-supported, skills-based approach to integrating key web-based and app-based learning tools, combined with real-world examples of how these may be used in the classroom to build relevant, engaging learning experiences. This unit focuses on building teacher competencies in using technologies, digital literacies and how they can engage in Personal Learning Networks to support their teaching journey.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR4212.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate and critically evaluate the key theories, knowledge and research findings for integrating ICTs in education and across learning areas.
  2. Evaluate and select appropriate technologies for specific learning outcomes across learning areas and phases of development.
  3. Manage the ICT environment in their classroom, including hardware, software and associated resources.
  4. Apply social and ethical protocols informed by current digital literacy practices when using ICTs, and articulate how to teach these protocols and practices to students.
  5. Recognise the ways in which a Personal Learning Network (PLN) of peers, mentors, guides and friends can enhance and support their professional journey.

Unit Content

  1. Key theories, knowledge and research findings for ICT integration in education.
  2. Investigating, communicating and creating with web-based and app-based tools.
  3. Set up, management and operation of key web-based and app-based tools.
  4. Digital literacy practices, digital citizenship and effective communication practices.
  5. National Teacher Standards, Personal Learning Networks, Professional Learning and being a Lifelong Learner.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour lab
Semester 213 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportDiscussion of educational ICT integration philosophies40%
Portfolioe-Portfolio (weekly activities submitted as a website)60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportDiscussion of educational ICT integration philosophies40%
Portfolioe-Portfolio (weekly activities submitted as a website)60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    ICT-Enhanced Curriculum
  • Unit Code

    CUR1212
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vincenzina Dorothea CORDERY

Description

This unit will equip beginning teachers with the digital pedagogy skills and appropriate pedagogical frameworks to build and deliver curriculum for the 21st-century educational setting. It is designed to develop a research-supported, skills-based approach to integrating key web-based and app-based learning tools, combined with real-world examples of how these may be used in the classroom to build relevant, engaging learning experiences. This unit focuses on building teacher competencies in using technologies, digital literacies and how they can engage in Personal Learning Networks to support their teaching journey.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR4212.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate and critically evaluate the key theories, knowledge and research findings for integrating ICTs in education and across learning areas.
  2. Evaluate and select appropriate technologies for specific learning outcomes across learning areas and phases of development.
  3. Manage the ICT environment in their classroom, including hardware, software and associated resources.
  4. Apply social and ethical protocols informed by current digital literacy practices when using ICTs, and articulate how to teach these protocols and practices to students.
  5. Recognise the ways in which a Personal Learning Network (PLN) of peers, mentors, guides and friends can enhance and support their professional journey.

Unit Content

  1. Key theories, knowledge and research findings for ICT integration in education.
  2. Investigating, communicating and creating with web-based and app-based tools.
  3. Set up, management and operation of key web-based and app-based tools.
  4. Digital literacy practices, digital citizenship and effective communication practices.
  5. National Teacher Standards, Personal Learning Networks, Professional Learning and being a Lifelong Learner.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour lab
Semester 213 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportDiscussion of educational ICT integration philosophies40%
Portfolioe-Portfolio (weekly activities submitted as a website)60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportDiscussion of educational ICT integration philosophies40%
Portfolioe-Portfolio (weekly activities submitted as a website)60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Bower, M. (2017). Design of Technology-Enhanced Learning : Integrating Research and Practice. Emerald Publishing Limited. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ECU/detail.action?docID=4717043

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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