Rough Draft of Unit of Work - Wiki.

Year 10:Home Ec

Title: Participating in Community Decisions

Time frame: 10 weeks, 2 x 80 mins and 1x 40 min lessons per week.

Essential Learnings: “Ways of working: Students are able to:

• investigate and analyse specifications, standards and constraints in the development of design ideas

• consult, negotiate and apply ethical principles and cultural protocols to investigate, design and make products

• generate and evaluate design ideas and communicate research, design options, budget and timelines in design proposals” (Queensland Studies Authority , 2007)

Knowledge and Understanding. People can influence decisions made about the design, development and use of technology to change the impact on people, their communities and environments at local and global levels (Queensland Studies Authority , 2007)

Home Economics Syllabus: LW 6.4 Students develop preferred futures scenarios that promote individual, family and community wellbeing and are socially and ethically responsible. (Queensland Studies Authority, 2005, p. 65)

Students will access a public Wiki designed to obtain public opinion on a new shopping complex in their community.

Students will then reflect on a class wiki about the postings, and after collaboration and consensus, combined posts will be submitted to the public wiki where comments will be invited.

Students will work through the webquest http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/harmony/shopping/process.htm during this unit to acquire knowledge about issues relating to design of community shopping centres.

At each stage of the webquest, a collaborative posting will be created and posted to the relevant page of the public wiki.

Experts from council will be invited as guest speakers and a digital dialogue will be encouraged through a class wiki.

The ICT Learning Design Framework constructed by Oliver (1999) incorporates the elements of learning tasks, resources and supports. These elements include problems, projects, investigations, web links, tutorials, papers, instructions, procedures, schedules and announcements. Using a webquest as the ICT tool for this unit of work encompasses the required learning elements outlined by Oliver. (Australian University Teaching Committee, 2003) The summative assessment for this unit is a brochure developed collaboratively summarizing the design brief, the problems and solutions. Formative assessment occurs with the submission of reflective input on class wikis.

Regards

Sue

References:

Australian University Teaching Committee. (2003). The Learning Design Construct - Oliver, R. Retrieved December 14, 2009, from Learning Designs: http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au/project/learn_design.htm

Queensland Studies Authority . (2007). Essential Learnings - Technology. Retrieved December 8, 2009, from Queensland Studies Authority: http://www.qsa.qld.edu.au/learning/7299.html

Queensland Studies Authority. (2005). Subject Area Syllabus and Guidelines, Home Economics Education Level 4 to Beyond Level 6. Spring Hill: Queensland Studies Authority.