Educational technologies

This unit supports you to explore how digital technologies can be effectively and creatively used to improve teaching, learning and assessment in schools. It provides opportunities for you to develop knowledge and skills relevant to the critical evaluation, appropriate selection and creative use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. This includes understanding and interpreting state and national curricula, as well as teaching standards. You will be encouraged to develop critical perspectives on policy, research and broader influences such as the media. You will engage with significant contemporary issues and debates regarding digital technologies, such as equity of access, digital citizenship, cybersafety, ethics, design thinking, and computational thinking. Importantly, you will be encouraged to practise a critical approach while designing the integration of digital technologies into their teaching, including new and emerging approaches such as 'making', programming, game-based learning and flipped classrooms. While the unit requires you to learn how to use digital technologies, it has been designed to maximise learning for all, regardless of your familiarity with digital technologies.