ED5812 - Teaching and Learning with New ICTs

Credit points:	03
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 4
Administered by:	School of Education

Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.

The subject provides a theoretical and productive outcomes approach to learning and teaching with new Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in schools, higher education, government, and/or industry workplaces. The subject includes the design, production, and use of Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts, Learning Management Systems, educational online games and simulations,interactive whiteboard, handhelds, and/or uploading sound and video. Other areas examined include the links among ICTs and various learning and teaching theories (e.g., objectivist, constructivist, connectivist, and post structuralist theory) as well as inclusive issues of gender, culture, and disability. The subject is designed to provide relevant, individualised and/or collaborative situated learning activities that take into account current and intended work contexts.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate effective information literacy skills with new ICTs;
• design, produce and implement a variety of new ICTs in educational contexts;
• demonstrate an in-depth, critical, and reflective understanding of relevant literature applicable to your portfolio;
• utilise and critique pedagogic/andragogic teaching and learning theories underpinning various ICTs.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 6
Census Date 27-Jun-2008
Face to face teaching 07-Jul-2008 to 11-Jul-2008
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Lynette Henderson.
Assessment:	presentations (25%); portfolio: ict products (75%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.