School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Technology in Early Childhood Education
  • Unit Code

    ECS2280
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Trish COLLINS

Description

This unit provides opportunities for students to examine how the Technologies learning area impacts daily life for children aged birth to age eight. Students will develop their own competence in Design and Technology and Digital Technology knowledge through a range of rich tasks and resources associated with Technology teaching and learning. Students will also learn to use Technology to enhance their own assessment strategies while designing learning experiences for all young children using current curriculums.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed ECS1240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply early childhood curriculums to the planning and assessment of Digital Technologies.
  2. Create solutions using appropriate developmental pedagogical practices for young children within Design and Technologies curriculum.
  3. Evaluate digital tools, programs, and apps to enable the effective use of Digital Technology for, with, and by young children.
  4. Evaluate the ethical use of technology as a sustainable practice.
  5. Use reflective practice to refine decision-making regarding use of ICT.

Unit Content

  1. Design and Technologies curriculums and Digital Technologies curriculums in early childhood.
  2. Engineering principles for Design and Technologies, including evaluation of design processes, ideas and solutions used with young children.
  3. Digital systems for the collection, documentation, management, and analysis of data with, for and by young children.
  4. Critical reflection and ethical decision-making when using digital tools, programs and apps to teach Technologies curriculums in Early Childhood Education.
  5. Collaborative partnerships with families for shared understanding and ethical use of Technologies.
  6. Assisted Technologies for children with additional needs.
  7. Coding and its use in Digital Technologies in ECE.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 112 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 112 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
AssignmentDesign and Technologies lesson plan30%
ReviewCritical review of Digital Technologies ethics in early childhood 40%
PresentationReflection30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDesign and Technologies lesson plan30%
ReviewCritical review of Digital Technologies ethics in early childhood 40%
PresentationReflection30%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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