EST400 - Primary Technology Education: Creativity and Design
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Joe Ferguson |
Prerequisite: | Students must have passed 12 credit points including 4 credit points at level 3 |
Corequisite: | Students must be enrolled in course E359, E330 or E334 |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 6-7 weeks)
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 6-9 weeks) |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This unit is designed for students to explore current principles and issues in the teaching of technology, and to enhance their understanding of technology education and technological practice. Students examine the interplay between society and technology and investigate methods of teaching technology education where children are challenged to become effective problem solvers in the design and construction of products to satisfy human needs and wants.
By considering case studies of teaching and learning technology in a global context, students become competent in planning inclusive curricula, which support children to develop technological literacy, knowledge and capability.
Through hands-on technological activities, students observe the links between the Technology Key Learning Area/Domain and other KLAs/Domains such as Art, Language and Science.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Develop a critical appreciation of design, creativity and technology and its practice, and a knowledge of contemporary issues in the teaching of design, creativity and technology within primary schools, such as cultural constructions of technology, the concept of inclusiveness, sustainability; (Please note that in the Victorian curriculum the term is Technologies: Design and Technology and Digital Technologies.) | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Explore their technology understandings and develop their design, creativity and technological knowledge and capability | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO3 | Identify different approaches to teaching and learning in design, creativity and technology education, including those that apply to early and middle years students | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO4 | Develop competence in planning curriculum and designing teaching approaches that support students in developing technological literacy | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO6: Self-management GLO7: Teamwork |
ULO5 | Explore and evaluate the links between technology education (design, creativity and technology) and technology within communities | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO6 | Experience the culture of technological practice and its interplay with society; and develop their own perspectives of technology | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Community Project: Written report and presentation in response to a community need | 50% | Information not yet available | |
Assessment 2 - Design Curriculum Task: Written report, which will focus on curriculum development within the primary school context | 30% | Information not yet available | |
Assessment 3 - Seminar response activities | 20% | Information not yet available | |
Assessment will total the equivalent of 4000-words |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for EST400 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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