ASSESSMENT TASK 1

Technology, as an educational tool, has come a long way.

THE SKY IS THE LIMIT!!!!

With the recognition of ICT as a valuable learning tool, students quite literally have an infinite amount of knowledge at their finger tips.

(but with tightening OH&S legislation, we couldn’t have stage 5 History Students scaling the

top shelf of this library to grab a book on the Effects of war !!!!)

A more modern approach to this lesson would be found in the use of technology to engage students in the content.

WHY GIVE STUDENTS THIS??

WHEN THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THIS….

There are certainly some great digital artefacts out there.

One brilliant digital artefact is the free audio recording program Audacity. The students, instead of just reading and regurgitating information about, for example, the

effects of war, students could create podcasts, audio blogs, even their own song!

Communication between teacher, student and curriculum moves to a whole new level….

Here is a teacher using audacity in conjuction with other classroom technologies to provide his students with an amazing new realm to learn in.

One not so reputable digital artefactwould be wikipedia.

TEACHER: How did you come to this conclusion? Was the Information from a trustworthy source?

Wikipedia is open for anyone to submit information.

(not everyone is a reliable source)

• WIKIPEDIA IS NOT GOING TO ENGAGE STUDENTS WITH SUBJECT CONTENT. THE

INFORMATION THEY LEARN MAY BE FALSE, BIASED, OR

COMPLETELY MISGUIDED AND INCORRECT.

In order to nurture student learning to engage and prompt further learning, analysis and opinion, students need reliable, accessible and

engaging material.

(the internet)

In my digital artefact project, I will be using technology such as Audacity to show its potential in the classroom.

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With technology advancing just as quick as jobs that didn’t exist yesterday, we can only wonder what a free resource like audacity will be out dated by in the future!

bibliography

• Microsoft office powerpoint

• www.flickr.com

• www.google.com

• www.youtube.com