Overview

This unit focuses on preparing pre-service teachers to plan, teach and assess digital technologies and design and technologies within in the primary classroom. In this unit pre-service teachers will gain knowledge of the principles, practices and curriculum content and key concepts of teaching digital technologies and design and technologies. Contemporary issues when teaching digital and design and technologies will also be considered.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU10004 Theories of Teaching and Learning

AND

150 credit points

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
04-November-2024
09-February-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-November-2024
Census date
29-November-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
27-December-2024
Results released date
04-March-2025
Teaching Period 2
Location
Online
Start and end dates
07-July-2025
05-October-2025
Last self-enrolment date
20-July-2025
Census date
01-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
22-August-2025
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Teach, plan and assess key digital technologies and design and technologies concepts and curriculum content appropriate for primary school environments
  • Evaluate pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning of digital technologies in the Primary classroom, including cross-disciplinary approaches
  • Evaluate and generate learning experiences that reflect relevant National and/or State or Territory curriculum documentation and reflect contemporary pedagogical approaches
  • Evaluate digital technologies and design and technology resources with a focus on student engagement
  • Evaluate a range of assessment and reporting strategies and record keeping instruments within digital technologies and design and technologies in terms of their purpose, benefits, limitations and implementation constraints
  • Analyse how the broader theoretical and societal context impacts upon the teaching of digital technologies and design and technologies

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		 1.00  12 weeks  12
On-campus
Class		 3.00  8 weeks  24
Specified Activities
Various		 4.00  12 weeks  48
Unspecified Activities
Various		 5.50  12 weeks  66
TOTAL     150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Case StudiesIndividual 50% 1,2,5 
PortfolioIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6 

Content

  • Curriculum
  • Contemporary pedagogical approaches and methods of teaching the technologies
  • Technologies concepts
  • Principles of teaching, planning and assessing within the technologies
  • Resources in the technologies
  • Strategies for assessing student learning, including the importance and functions of moderation and providing feedback to enhance learning
  • Contemporary issues in Technologies teaching
  • Cross disciplinary learning experiences
  • 21st Century skills
  • Futures thinking

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.