Information

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Information Communication Technology in
Learning Teaching

• Assignment 3
• Due Date
• Fri June 17th, 2005

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• Assignment 3 A simple learning package (2500
  words)
• Develop a simple learning package that integrates
  ICTs into one of the following topics
• Australian authors and their contribution to
  understanding Australian society
• Planning a holiday
• Combating obesity with healthy eating
• Survival in natural disasters

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Assignment submission

• The assignment is to be done as a word processed
  document of approx 2500 words
• Your assignment is to be submitted as a hard copy
  into the designated assignment boxes near the
  reception in the DeLissa building by 5pm on June
  17th
• Appendices can be used where further explanation
  is required.

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What is a simple learning package?

• Similar to a unit of work
• Learning package consists of a series of lessons
  (approximately 4-6) made up of one or more
  activities
• The package must demonstrate the integration of a
  number of technologies
• Not all lessons are required to use computer
  technologies
• It is simple because as yet you have not been
  introduced extensively to curriculum frameworks

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Assignment Components

• Identify your topic
• Aims of the learning package
• Target audience (year level/s)
• Relevant learning areas
• Learning outcomes
• Rationale for the choice of technologies and
  their uses in the lessons with reference to the
  research literature
• A series of lessons
• Assessment of learning outcomes
• Evaluation of learning package
• References

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Your topic

• Choose one topic from the four listed in your
  course information booklet
• Brainstorm ideas around how you might create a
  series of lessons
• What are suitable activities?
• What technologies might enhance the learning of
  this topic?

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Aims of learning package

• In a sentence or two state the major purpose of
  this package

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Audience

• Choose a year level/s for which you will prepare
  this package
• When choosing a year level consideration should
  be given to the following
• The language used
• Degree of difficulty of the activities
• Time allowed
• Software chosen
• Prior knowledge of the students

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Relevant learning areas

• Ideally aim for cross curricular activities
• How might the activities support the development
  of knowledge understanding in other learning
  areas
• For example Planning a holiday may reflect
  learning outcomes in Maths, S E, The Arts

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Rationale

• What is a rationale?
• Simple concise statements that justify or explain
  (using the literature) why youve chosen
  particular technologies for the activities and
  how they may enhance learning.
• How are the technologies being integrated?
• Appropriateness of the design
• The rationale must be strongly supported with
  references from the research literature

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Integration of the technologies

• Learning the technology technology skills
• Using the technology in place of other
  alternatives
• For example Word processor instead of writing or
  PowerPoint instead of poster
• Achieving new learning outcomes that are enabled
  by using the technologies
• For example Lots of charts, global interactions
• Changing learning practices

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Some benefits of the technology integration

• Edit and review cycle
• Equalisation
• Publishing to an audience
• Multiple copies
• Mobile format
• Enhanced social interaction
• Enhanced cognitive skills
• Catering for individual differences
• Other

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Learning Outcomes

• Outcomes must be measurable observable, not
  airy, fairy ideas or pie in the sky stuff
• Identify learning outcomes against each lesson
• What do you want students to have achieved at the
  end of each lesson?
• How will this be measured and/or observed?

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The lesson

• Identify learning outcome/s
• What is the activity/s? This should be outlined
  as clearly as possible
• Either explaining it in a paragraph or over a
  number of paragraphs
• You may prefer to explain it as a series of steps
  or dot points
• Clearly indicate technologies being used
  including computer technologies where relevant

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Resources

• Resources that you require should be indicated
  either for the whole unit of work or against each
  lesson.

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Assessment

• How will you assess the unit of work? this must
  be indicated
• Assessment should measure the achievement of the
  learning outcomes
• Indicate assessment criteria

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Evaluation

• Evaluation is different from assessment.
• Assessment measures the learning outcomes
• Evaluation measures the success of the unit of
  work
• Did students enjoy the unit?
• What did they learn?
• What did they enjoy the most?
• What did they find difficult?
• Was the learning package effectively implemented?
• How can the unit of work be improved?
• Etc.

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Reference List

• Using APA referencing style, list the resources
  used in your learning package.
• There should be a strong presence of in-text
  references in the rationale

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Some ideas of lesson plans

• Some examples
• http//school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
• http//www.edna.edu.au/edna/browse/0,sne,ict,3910
• http//search.ncrel.org/query.html?qtlessonplans
  

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Any questions???