EST400 - Primary Technology Education: Creativity and Design

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

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
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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3-hour seminar per week during non-placement weeks (approx. 6-9 weeks) 

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 2-hour seminar per week during non-placement weeks (approx. 6-9 weeks)

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

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.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
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
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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: EST400 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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