Sunday, January 27, 2019

What do we do in the Digital Technologies Subject?




What do we do in the Digital Technologies Subject?
Students:
  • learn about the nature and the safe, ethical and responsible use of information and system
  • are provided with opportunities to be creative and innovative and create sustainable solutions to meet client needs and opportunities to real world problems, and
  • create sustainable solutions by using a design thinking process of investigating and defining, designing, producing and implementing, evaluating and collaborating and managing.

Teachers allow creativity and innovation to flow by:
  • Encouraging risk taking – mistakes are tolerated!
  • Providing opportunities for open ended tasks and tasks that are authentic/real world
  • Encouraging different outcomes rather than expecting prescribed outcomes
  • Using a student-centred approach, where the teacher:
  • models and provides explicit skill instruction (I do, you watch - I do, you help - You do, I help - You do, I watch)
  • encourages students to reflect on their learning and how they are learning it
  • encourages collaboration and engages the students in the hard, messy work of learning (opportunities for students to practice, practice, practice)
  • uses pedagogical approaches that are experiential, challenged, problem and/or inquiry based, personalised, differentiated, and asks the big questions
  • provides opportunities for the students to negotiate the curriculum
  • models a growth mindset
  • makes time for brainstorming and the active soliciting of ideas, and
  • is supportive and provides timely feedback.
By sustainable we mean encouraging students to consider:
  • Environmental sustainability – how they might preserve resources for future generations and avoid waste 
  • Social sustainability – how they might work cohesively and collaboratively, persevering on a task/solution
  •  Financial sustainabilitythe cost of the solution, the $ value of the proposed solution
  • Technical sustainability – what is possible now with the available technology... student’s must have an opportunity to reflect, evaluate and review previous solutions and consider alternatives given any improvements in technologies.
  • Economic sustainabilitythe opportunity cost, what one has to forgo given the problem of scarce resources.

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