EDT703 - Digital Systems: Curriculum Planning and Assessment
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online with intensive seminars |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E521 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| 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. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 2-hour online seminars per week in approx. weeks 3, 7 & 11 4 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (seminars) per trimester in week 0 |
Content
Digital Systems: Curriculum Planning and Assessment enhances students' knowledge in digital system concepts and design approaches and builds skills and confidence in how to teach these concepts and approaches across years 7-10 Digital Technologies.
Building on skills and understandings from previous units in the course, students in this unit will investigate the connections between networked digital systems (computer devices, Internet of Things, mobile devices, software, and networks) and digital solutions (software applications), including considering the role and needs of users and others impacted by digital systems. Learning in the unit will include modelling digital systems using digital and unplugged approaches and considering privacy, safety, and security risks. In terms of teaching capabilities, the unit emphasises curriculum planning and assessment practices for Digital Technologies, including assessment of, for and as learning. The students will draw together digital systems and teacher knowledge to plan and develop assessment tasks suitable for planning learning for school students they teach. In this work, students will write and adapt assessment tasks for effective differentiation and inclusion in the Digital Technologies classroom by identifying and planning to accommodate the life worlds and learning needs of diverse learners and groups.
Hurdle requirement
| Brief summary of assessment tasks and hurdle requirement | Rationale | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
| 1. Pass tasks Students need to complete the units pass tasks to pass the unit. The portfolio requires students to work through a series of Tasks to produce a portfolio of evidence showing achievement of the unit learning outcomes. To achieve a passing grade, students must demonstrate adequate performance in the completion of the unit’s pass tasks, which will show the required minimum standard. | The pass tasks in this unit provides students the opportunity to develop and demonstrate the achievement of Unit Learning Outcomes at the minimum expected standards. These tasks are included as hurdle requirements so that students are able to provide evidence of achievement of these ULOs through their portfolio. The portfolio artefact that they submit is used to measure their performance against the minimum standards as well as their ability to justify the outcomes that they have achieved through self-assessment and reflection. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
| 2. Task Discussion Students are required to discuss their understanding of concepts, and demonstrate achievement of unit learning outcomes, with the teaching team. To receive a passing grade, students must clearly communicate appropriate understanding of the associated concepts and achievement of the associated unit learning outcomes in these task discussions. As part of this process, the teaching team may require students to answer follow up questions for clarifications, redo the task, and/or repeat the task discussion to satisfy this hurdle requirement. | Task discussions help students to demonstrate achievement of their unit learning outcomes, while also helping to authenticate student learning and improve academic integrity in the unit. The student-staff interaction during discussions will allow the teaching team to make judgements about student learning and progress in select tasks that are representative of high-order thinking and learning. Feedback resulting from this will help aid student learning and provide them with additional opportunities to demonstrate achievement of unit learning outcomes. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO8: Global citizenship |
Unit Fee Information
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