Technology literacy and your professional development
COURSE
| Course Details | Length | Time spent | Status |
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Supporting teacher professional development |
In this unit educators will focus on how technology can be useful in supporting the professional learning and development. There is a vast range of professional development materials and opportunities available through the Internet. The challenge is in deciding what will be appropriate and effective.
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Accelerating success with ICT |
30mins |
This topic looks at various ICT resources that can be used to enhance educators’ professional development. It stresses the importance of verifying the credibility of these online resources.
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Success stories with ICT |
30mins |
This topic offers a series of case studies to demonstrate how technology can contribute to educators’ professional development. The aim of this is to help educators to create their own action plan to achieve their professional development goals using ICT tools
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Use ICT to work smart |
In this unit educators will think about how technology can help them as professionals in their wider roles. It aims to get them to transfer the skills they have developed in other areas to support their work.
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Getting more done with ICT |
25mins |
The focus of this topic is the wider work of educators in non-teaching tasks in schools. Educators are supported in identifying the potential of ICT tools to perform some of these tasks in a more efficient way, particularly in areas like planning, record keeping, assessing and evaluation, communication and collaboration.
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Harnessing ICT for routine tasks |
20mins |
In this topic educators are encouraged to identify and use appropriate tools to enhance productivity in performing specific tasks in their professional work. They are supported in identifying the skills and knowledge that they will need to use technology in school effectively, such as contacting parents, creating lesson plans, quizzes, and mark sheets.
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Step by step with ICT |
20mins |
The aim of this topic is to support educators in getting started in simple and practical ways to use ICT tools for routine tasks. It also looks at groups of people and resources to can help educators with the steps towards gradually building ICT tools into their daily tasks.
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Assessment: Technology literacy and your professional development |
35mins |
The assessment aims to see how well the educators have mastered the course objectives. Educators are presented with questions covering the content from each unit. The question pool is randomised each time the assessment is attempted. A score of 80% or above on the 20 questions is needed to pass and receive a certificate of completion. Educators can take the assessment more than once. Educators can save the downloadable summaries from each unit, and may find them helpful to review before completing the assessment.
