ED1441 - Technologies for Primary School

Credit points:	03
Year:	2018
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	College of Arts, Society & Education

Limited offering available to RATEP students only. NOTE: The delivery of this subject includes interactive online tutorials and requires students to have access to the World Wide Web for participation in this subject.

The primary goal of this subject is to foster pre-service teacher development towards the Graduate Australian Professional Standards for Teachers requirements in the context of design and technologies and digital technologies, the two distinct but related subjects of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies. Upon completion of this subject, graduate student teachers will be able to approach the teaching of technologies positively, including coding and robotics. Through a focus on pedagogical practices, students will develop and demonstrate an introductory understanding of the content and processes of technologies education including 'thinking in technologies' (design, systems and computational thinking), project management and how the ICT General capability is used to support technologies learning. Students will explore their role in influencing learning through planning learning experiences that provide primary students with authentic opportunities to create solutions, consider sustainable patterns of living and contribute to preferred futures for themselves and others.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the Key Ideas in the Australian Curriculum: Technologies learning area;
• examine how play and design thinking supports children to use their imagination and creativity to create design solutions;
• demonstrate at an introductory level, the ability to plan learning experiences that provide primary students with authentic opportunities to create solutions, consider sustainable patterns of living and contribute to preferred futures for themselves and others;
• demonstrate at an introductory level a broad range of teacher knowledge, competencies and dispositions that address effective teaching of technologies with an emphasis on the priority areas of Indigenous education, education for sustainability, rural and regional education in and for the tropics;
• demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies learning areas two distinct but related subjects: Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2018
Coordinator:	Mr Maxwell Lenoy
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours - Workshops/Tutorials
Assessment:	assignments (50%); planning technologies learning experiences (50%).
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2018
Face to face teaching (Online collaborate tutorial attendance at RATEP Sites within the Study Period dates as scheduled)
Coordinator:	Mr Maxwell Lenoy
Contact hours:	39 hours - 13 hrs collaborate tutorials and 26 hrs online lectures
Assessment:	assignments (50%); planning technologies learning experiences (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 23-Aug-2018
Coordinator:	Mr Maxwell Lenoy
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - 2 x 1 hour lecture per week 13 hours - Workshops/tutorials (1 x 1 hour tutorial/workshop per week, online delivery in Week 7)
Assessment:	assignments (50%); planning technologies learning experiences (50%).

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.