Module EDUS1641: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND STUDY SKILLS FOR EDUCATION STUDENTS

Department: EDUCATION [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

EDUS1641: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND STUDY SKILLS FOR EDUCATION STUDENTS

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• Advanced Information Technology and Study Skills for Education students.

Aims

• Study skills: To develop student understanding of the essential generic issues/skills related to primary education.
• To develop student understanding of the skills related to the management of information.
• To develop student understanding of the skills related to effective study in higher education.
• IT: To make students confident, competent and comfortable in using basic and more advanced information technology in the context of academic and workplace environments.

Content

• Study skills: Issues related to planning effective learning experiences in the primary school.
• Issues related to effective management of the primary classroom.
• Issues related to the effective assessment of pupil development.
• Issues related to the management of information from a wide variety of e-based resources.
• Issues related to effective study such as time management, organisation of material.
• IT: This module provides IT skills which are of use for academic study and a future workplace environment.
• Each session consists of practical demonstrations with supporting teaching materials that reinforce and expand the topics covered in the sessions.
• Assessment is by in-course assessment and assignments.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module, students should be able to: Study Skills: Demonstrate understanding of central issues related to effective primary education.
• IT: Understand and make productive use of: File management software.
• Email Software.
• Library Databases.
• World Wide Web.
• Word Processing software.
• Spreadsheet software.
• Bibliographic software.
• Web Page production software.

• Demonstrate competence in searching, retrieving and managing information from a variety of sources.
• Demonstrate competence in using appropriate study skills within their own study.
• Use practical skills in the creation of: Word Processed documents.
• Spreadsheets.
• Bibliographies.
• Web pages.
• think critically and independently;
• analyse, synthesise and evaluate primary and/or secondary data;
• critically analyse literature on a variety of contemporary education issues;
• construct and sustain a reasoned argument.

• communicate ideas, principles and theories effectively in a variety of ways;
• work effectively on given tasks and activities;
• use Information and Communications Technology in a variety of ways;
• manage time and work to deadlines.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Study skills: Teaching methods will include lectures and school-based seminars.
• These mechanisms allow for the different learning outcomes to be addressed.
• Lectures will focus on specific issues, seminars allow for in-depth discussion of relevant issues.
• Basic IT is skills based learning requiring step by step explanation and instruction.
• This approach is adopted in lab sessions through the use of detailed booklets and practical demonstrations.
• Skills assessment will be through the use of detailed booklets and practical demonstrations.
• Skills assessment will be through formative exercises and in-course assessment.
• Creative use of IT will be tested via assignments based on academic study.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Study Skills: An individual written assignment required in term 1. IT: Written and PC based exercises accompany most lab sessions. There will be a voluntary ??streaming?? assessment early in the course. Students passing to the required standard will transfer to the Advanced Information Technology and Study Skills module. To pass the assessment students would normally be required to obtain 50% or greater in the following sections: File Management; Library databases; Email; World Wider Web; The responsible use of computers; They would also normally be expected to achieve a mark of 70% or greater in Word Processing and the use of Spreadsheet software.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University