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Requisites

Students must be enrolled in: BEDU (Early Child, Primary, Primary+Special Educ, Special Educ, HPE Primary, SHPE Primary) or BECH or BEED or BPED or BSED
BEDU (Early Child) or BEED Only - Enrolment is not permitted if EDC3100 has been previously completed

Other requisites

Students enrolling in courses which do not follow the recommended enrolment pattern cannot be assured of a developmental learning experience or program completion within their preferred timeframe.

Rationale

There are two key digital technologies issues that graduates require to be effective teachers in the 21 century. The first is their ability to position digital technology devices and systems within their teaching capability. This enables teachers to leverage the emerging technologies for improving student learning outcomes when such digital devices and systems that are available. The second is that our graduates need to have an understanding of the digital technologies curriculum and the implications for the teaching and learning of this curriculum area. This course builds the students’ knowledge of both aspects with an emphasis on developing graduates’ knowledge of the digital technologies curriculum. The course positions the use of digital technologies and ICT capabilities as a support for the delivery of the digital technologies curriculum in general.

Synopsis

The aim of this course is to prepare graduates to implement digital technologies across the Curriculum. Pre-service educators in this course will develop an understanding of the use of digital technologies as a general capability across early childhood, primary and secondary contexts by emphasising its application in curriculum and pedagogy. This course will focus on building understanding of the relevant curriculum documents, including the Australian Curriculum and the Early Years Learning Framework with pre-service educators understanding how to embed Cross-Curriculum Priorities and General Capabilities, or how to integrate them into their teaching and learning practices.

Objectives

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Student workload expectations

Assessment details

Important assessment information

1. Attendance requirements:
   
   It is the students' responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them, to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.
   
   
2. Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
   
   To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks for that item.
   
   
3. Penalties for late submission of required work:
   
   Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4)
   
   
4. Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
   
   To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course.
   
   
5. Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
   
   The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative items for the course.
   
   
6. Examination information:
   
   There is no examination in this course.
   
   
7. Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
   
   There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations.
   
   
8. University Student Policies:
   
   Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene University policies and practices. These policies can be found at .
   
   

Assessment notes

1. Referencing in assignments must comply with the APA referencing system. This system should be used by students to format details of the information sources they have cited in their work. The APA style to be used is defined by the USQ library's referencing guide. This guide can be found at .
   
   
2. Students are required to demonstrate competence in and appropriate use of academic language and literacy, including spelling, grammar, punctuation, and referencing in all assessment responses. Marks allocated to the aforementioned criteria will be specified in the criteria for assessment of all assessment items.
   
   
3. Students are required to submit ALL assignments to evidence meeting or exceeding the mandatory requirements of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APSTs).
   
   

Evaluation and benchmarking

In meeting the University’s aims to establish quality learning and teaching for all programs, this course monitors and ensures quality assurance and improvements in at least two ways. This course:
1. conforms to the USQ Policy on Evaluation of Teaching, Courses and Programs to ensure ongoing monitoring and systematic improvement
2. forms part of the Bachelor of Education and is benchmarked against the:

1. internal USQ accreditation/reaccreditation processes which include (i) stringent standards in the independent accreditation of its academic programs, (ii) close integration between business and academic planning, and (iii) regular and rigorous review
2. Queensland College of Teachers
3. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL).

Other requirements

1. Participation: Students can expect it will be necessary to participate in and contribute to a range of learning opportunities in this course including online study activities, lectures, tutorials, seminar presentations, group discussions and self-directed study activities in order to apply the coursework that will enable quality assessment tasks to be submitted as evidence of professional development.