Practice Focused Tasks

Subject

ETL523 Digital Citizenship in Schools

Teaching Staff

Julie Lindsay

Motivation

ETL523 Digital Citizenship in Schools is a subject in the postgraduate degree Master of Education in Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation (School of Information Studies). The focus of Assignment 1: Digital citizenship Learning Module was to work in a small team and create an authentic online learning module, demonstrating a range of digital and media affordances of the web environment as well as understanding of the needs of schools and institutions at the time. This module was to be designed for use within a school/institution learning environment. Assignment 2 asked students to be able to articulate and reflect on the role of an information leader, examine their school or institution, provide an overview of the issues and write a report or develop an information policy or set of guidelines that support digital citizenship and digital learning in schools.

Implementation

Each diverse team (3-5 students) will choose a suitable topic and subtopics and the learning module was created using a wiki (Wikispaces). Each student then chose a multimedia tool or tools and created a personal digital artefact to complement the learning module material. The Assignment 2 report was typically distributed to leadership within the school/institution and once again propelled this task into a professional realm. In effect it often prevented students from being too critical of what they saw (and were experiencing) encouraging facts and then synthesised discussion and some solutions via a proposed plan of improvement.

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Subject

HRM320 Issues in Human Resource Management

Teaching Staff

Pete Millet

Motivation

Providing students with the opportunity to create authentic artefacts within assessment adds an element of motivation. It also gives students the opportunity to demonstrate professional knowledge and skills.

Implementation

This strategy is implemented through assessment tasks which include opportunities for students to select topics or problems of particular relevance to their workplace. One such example of this is Assessment item 3 ‘HR Issue Recommendation Report’. In this assessment task, students are asked to select an HR issue or challenge within an organisation of their choice and to provide recommendations in a formal report. In doing so student apply newly learned theory within a practical, authentic setting.