Digital Solutions
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Week 12
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Cicero
Course Overview
Digital Solutions is a course of study at Griffith University for graduate students undertaking a Master of Secondary Teaching and having previously completed a computer-science-related degree or the BEd with a secondary specialisation in Senior Computing so that knowledge of a computer programming language and information systems is assumed. This course prepares students to teach the Digital Solutions subject for Years 11 and 12 students in Secondary Schools. Digital Solutions builds upon the Digital Technologies course from Semester 1.
Digital Solutions
Course Structure
Each week students will review course material and spend two hours exploring a particular theme in an online videoconference.
Course Assessment
Students have two assessment tasks to complete for this course, the first is an investigation of different approaches to teaching Digital Solutions where you use Critical Analysis and Evaluation, due mid August, the second is an Annotated Planning and Assessment Task where you detail how you would teach and assess a unit (with two detailed lesson plans) to a defined group of students, due early October.
Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Annotated Planning and Assessment
Week 1
Curriculum
Compare the F-10 Digital Technologies curriculum to the QCAA Digital Solutions syllabus.
Examine the QCAA Digital Solutions Syllabus to identify its requirements for Senior computer education students.
Critically analyse learning and/or assessment materials to demonstrate an understanding of the syllabus objectives within the Queensland Senior Digital Solutions Syllabus.
Curriculum
Week 2
Research
Explore processes of critical analysis.
Draw upon literature from several different conceptual fields to critically analyse and evaluate a resource/s relevant for computer education in the senior secondary years.
Research
Week 3
Content
Explore in-depth the various Digital Solutions project options available to students and teachers in the curriculum.
Organise content to support effective learning and teaching sequences or projects that challenge and motivate learners in the senior secondary computer education classroom.
Content
University Break
Week 9
Pedagogy
Examine a range of concepts relevant to the effective teaching of computer education in the Senior years.
Set or negotiate learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students in the senior secondary computer education classroom of varying abilities and characteristics
Critically analyse, design and justify teaching strategies that are most effective in challenging and supporting inclusive student participation in computer education in the senior secondary years.
Pedagogy
Task 1
Assignment 1 due (Monday Week 10)
Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Week 10
Technologies
Participate in workshops designed to build students’ capacity to plan for and deliver high quality computer education for topics within and beyond the current syllabus document.
Within planning processes create, select, negotiate and employ a range of resources, including ICT, that engage students in computer education learning.
Critically analyse, design and justify learning and assessment to demonstrate an understanding of how computer education students learn in the senior years of schooling.
Technologies
Week 11
Assessment
Develop the skills and understandings required to design assessment tasks that align with the requirements of the syllabus and the learning needs of senior computer education students.
Develop an understanding of the various assessment processes used within senior schooling.
Design and justify assessment specific to the syllabus requirements for Digital Solutions in the senior secondary years.
Assessment
Week 12
Review Workshop
Online session providing support in completing Assignment 2
Review
Task 2
Assignment 2 due (Monday Week 13)
Annotated Planning and Assessment