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

    Primary Technologies
  • Unit Code

    TCH4260
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Allen MARTIN

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the Technologies Learning Area. It develops the student's confidence and competence in the use of a range of resources to resolve issues in an enterprising manner. The philosophical basis and values of the learning area are explored through rich tasks. Students' understanding of pedagogical approaches for the classroom is developed through an examination of current research. The content and methodology are examined in relation to learning and development to meet the needs of a diverse range of children.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed PPA1260 and PPA2360.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TEE2110, TEE3100, DTM4260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design integrated rich task Technologies learning experiences suitable for use in a range of classroom settings.
  2. Develop and maintain a portfolio as a reflective medium.
  3. Identify the purpose and value of the technology process in early childhood and primary settings.
  4. Investigate assessment strategies for the Technologies learning area.
  5. Manipulate a range of common materials and computer programs, using the technology process, to collaboratively negotiate rich tasks.

Unit Content

  1. Alternative approaches to assessment.
  2. Compliant and resilient materials. Appropriate usage, storage and resourcing of Technologies materials.
  3. Computer literacy skills for engaging with technology problems and forms of representation for showing what has been learned.
  4. Opportunities for Technologies to contribute to the achievement of outcomes in other learning areas.
  5. Strategies to enhance critical thinking.
  6. The nature of the Technologies learning area and the adoption of flexible, open-ended approaches to solving technology problems.
  7. The purpose, value, philosophy and history of technology and enterprise education in Australia.
  8. Use of contemporary curriculum documents in Technologies.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit will be covered through the combination of lectures, collaborative problem solving workshops, discussion of and reflection on relevant readings and exploration of teaching practice videos.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReflective task50%
AssignmentPlanning50%

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

    Primary Technologies
  • Unit Code

    TCH4260
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr David Allen MARTIN

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the Technologies Learning Area. It develops the student's confidence and competence in the use of a range of resources to resolve issues in an enterprising manner. The philosophical basis and values of the learning area are explored through rich tasks. Students' understanding of pedagogical approaches for the classroom is developed through an examination of current research. The content and methodology are examined in relation to learning and development to meet the needs of a diverse range of children.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed PPA1260 and PPA2360.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TEE2110, TEE3100, DTM4260

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design integrated rich task Technologies learning experiences suitable for use in a range of classroom settings.
  2. Develop and maintain a portfolio as a reflective medium.
  3. Identify the purpose and value of the technology process in early childhood and primary settings.
  4. Investigate assessment strategies for the Technologies learning area.
  5. Manipulate a range of common materials and computer programs, using the technology process, to collaboratively negotiate rich tasks.

Unit Content

  1. Alternative approaches to assessment.
  2. Compliant and resilient materials. Appropriate usage, storage and resourcing of Technologies materials.
  3. Computer literacy skills for engaging with technology problems and forms of representation for showing what has been learned.
  4. Opportunities for Technologies to contribute to the achievement of outcomes in other learning areas.
  5. Strategies to enhance critical thinking.
  6. The nature of the Technologies learning area and the adoption of flexible, open-ended approaches to solving technology problems.
  7. The purpose, value, philosophy and history of technology and enterprise education in Australia.
  8. Use of contemporary curriculum documents in Technologies.

Learning Experience

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit will be covered through the combination of lectures, collaborative problem solving workshops, discussion of and reflection on relevant readings and exploration of teaching practice videos.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentReflective task50%
AssignmentPlanning50%

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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