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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Digital Technology Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    DGT6711
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vincenzina Dorothea CORDERY

Description

This unit introduces students to the field of educational technology in secondary schools in Western Australia and encourages the development of a comprehensive knowledge base concerning ICT in a school context. It includes an introduction to the teaching of digital technologies courses in secondary schools. This unit also examines school curricula, appropriate computer applications and the development and assessment of teaching programmes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSE4110, CSE6711.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse and evaluate the rationale, aims and content of lower secondary school digital technology courses.
  2. Create lessons to effectively implement technology solutions to data processing problems using applications software.
  3. Discuss and explore current issues relating to the teaching of introductory digital technology including the requirements of hardware, software and courseware.
  4. Plan effective lessons using a range of teaching strategies.
  5. Prepare and apply a teaching programme for a digital technology course based on broad curriculum directives.

Unit Content

  1. Examination of ICT curriculum and issues involving the study of digital technology.
  2. Examination of the concept of digital literacy in schools and society.
  3. Preparation of teaching programmes and lessons.
  4. Resources and equipment required to service courses.
  5. Strategies to teach the use of applications software.
  6. Teaching strategies and evaluation strategies.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered14 x 3 hour seminarNot 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
AssignmentTeaching programme and lesson plans60%
WorkshopMicro teaching40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Digital Technology Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    DGT6711
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Vincenzina Dorothea CORDERY

Description

This unit introduces students to the field of educational technology in secondary schools in Western Australia and encourages the development of a comprehensive knowledge base concerning ICT in a school context. It includes an introduction to the teaching of digital technologies courses in secondary schools. This unit also examines school curricula, appropriate computer applications and the development and assessment of teaching programmes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSE4110, CSE6711.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse and evaluate the rationale, aims and content of lower secondary school digital technology courses.
  2. Create lessons to effectively implement technology solutions to data processing problems using applications software.
  3. Discuss and explore current issues relating to the teaching of introductory digital technology including the requirements of hardware, software and courseware.
  4. Plan effective lessons using a range of teaching strategies.
  5. Prepare and apply a teaching programme for a digital technology course based on broad curriculum directives.

Unit Content

  1. Examination of ICT curriculum and issues involving the study of digital technology.
  2. Examination of the concept of digital literacy in schools and society.
  3. Preparation of teaching programmes and lessons.
  4. Resources and equipment required to service courses.
  5. Strategies to teach the use of applications software.
  6. Teaching strategies and evaluation strategies.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered14 x 3 hour seminarNot 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
AssignmentTeaching programme and lesson plans60%
WorkshopMicro teaching40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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