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ETE525 - Primary Technologies

2025

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Education

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Unit Description

This unit covers the key learning area of Primary Technologies, which includes the subject areas of Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies as described in the Australian Curriculum. The unit activities apply a practical, hands-on approach to increase preservice teachers skills in the use of digital technologies to enable an understanding of the concepts required to develop effective strategies for teaching both subject areas. Preservice teachers will explore options for integrating literacy and numeracy and will learn about, and learn to teach safe, responsible and ethical uses of ICT. By the end of this unit, preservice teachers will be familiar with and competent in basic coding, digital lesson design, project-based learning, and be able to apply the principles of computational thinking, design thinking and systems thinking to enable their students to create digital and designed solutions.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Critically examine the concepts and content of the Technologies Key Learning Area by designing a plan for effective learning and teaching sequences as related to Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies subjects.
2.	Test and critically review a range of resources including, but not limited to, Minecraft and Scratch to engage students in their learning by designing an integrated unit of work to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICTs.
3.	Engage critically with research informing pedagogy and praxis, as well as assessment and reporting in the Technologies subjects with a view to inclusiveness and appropriate differentiation.
4.	Demonstrate knowledge of explicit modelling, scaffolding and retrieval practices in clearly explained tasks with well-articulated goals.
5.	Design and create digital solutions to a task by applying the principles of computational thinking with systems thinking.
6.	Design and create designed solutions to a task by applying the process of design thinking with systems thinking.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Massive Online Open Courses x 2 (MOOCs) (1,000 words or equivalent - Hurdle)	30%	1,2,5,6
2.	Digital project (1,500 words or equivalent)	35%	1,2,3,4,5
3.	Design project (1,500 words or equivalent)	35%	1,2,3,4,5,6

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2025	Semester 1	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR	View
2025	Semester 1	External	External Studies	OLR	View

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OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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