- Title
- Bring your own device (BYOD) and the digital technology curriculum
- Creator
- Trevallion, Deborah; Hamed, Ahmed
- Relation
- 8th Biennial Conference on Technology Education. Technology Education: Learning for Life: Proceedings of the 8th Biennial conference on Technology Education, Volume 2 (Sydney 26-29 November, 2014) p. 90-98
- Relation
- http://www.techedconferenceaustralia.com/
- Publisher
- Design and Technology Association of Australia
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- This paper examines the learning possibilities for the digital technologies curriculum in Australia. Australia finally has its first digital technology curriculum which is mandatory for all Australian children from foundation to year 8. Living in the Information age, in a world that is characterized by a digitized existence and constant change, it is critical that our children are empowered to manage. As future citizens, our children need to have a deep understanding of information systems to enable them to use critical thinking to make decisions about their future. Digital systems support new ways of working in our global networks and require a new, essential skill set. Digital Technologies provides hands-on experiences using creative thinking to develop original digital solutions. The subject will develop students who can resolve our digital needs in imaginative ways; they will be efficient operators of technology and critical users of information. This paper examines a number of ways that this can be taught both in a technology and in an ICT classroom using a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approach. The Australian students’ ICT capability is to be developed in every school subject. A new improved approach has the possibility of enhancing student motivation, boosting their self-esteem, developing technical skills, increasing productivity and improving student achievement.
- Subject
- digital technologies; design; bring your own device; ICT; communications; change; generation gap; classroom of the future
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064555
- Identifier
- uon:17591
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780994202710
- Language
- eng
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