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ED4632 - Transforming Learning Through ICT Bianca Young, Katie Redbond & Travis Roost __Year 8 Student - Technology & Enterprise__

**ICT Integration Project - Joint Statement.**
Living in a world where technology is surrounding our everyday needs and tasks, our group decided to develop a learning task for Year 8 Students in the area of Technology and Enterprise, with the end result being the students design, implement and present to the class a website for a small business. With this opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of market research, they have to then integrate their knowledge through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This enables the students to work together and learn in small groups to:


 * Efficiently and effectively access digital information to assist with investigative problem solving and decision making skills.
 * Produce creative solutions to support learning and develop a understanding of areas of learning.
 * Communicate, share and work collaboratively in local and global environments.
 * Understand the legal, ethical and health & safety implications of using ICT and the responsibility as users and developers.
 * Develop new thinking and learning skills to support learning.

The WA Curriculum developed a framework for ICT to ensure consistency in learning, opportunity, knowledge, skills, understandings and capabilities. Our task has areas of enquiry, creativity, communication and operation to ensure the Year 8 Students read the WA Curriculum Framework opportunities of:


 * Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information.
 * Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others.
 * Students select, use and adapt technologies.
 * Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options.
 * Students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others.
 * Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively.

The underpinning framework behind our teaching style is a combination of two learning theories; social contextualism and cognitivism. We believe that Year 8 students require a framework to operate within, yet need some freedom to explore their own individual creativity with the ability to work within a group environment. Theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky have modelled our ideal teaching behaviours along with Rogers, which we will apply to our lessons through the 4-week ICT project.

**Mind Map - SpiderScribe**
Please see Notre Dame email for the link to our SpiderScribe page.

**Project Plan**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT Integration Project (Planning)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">1st Meeting – Monday 16th January 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed By: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Joint Statement || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY, KR & TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monday 16th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mind Map || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project Plan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 18th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Forward Planning Document || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT statement || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 18th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evidence Based Learning Theory || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 18th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT Integration Ptroject (Proto-type) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ICT Integration Ptroject (Publishing)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">2st Meeting – Monday 23rd January 2012 ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed By: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brainstorm || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY, KR & TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monday 23rd Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson Plan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tuesday 24th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student Engagement || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY, KR & TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use of ICT || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY, KR & TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monday 23rd Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Test ICT || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TR & KR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quality || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY, KR & TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3rd Meeting – Wednesday 25th January 2012 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed By: || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Completed ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction Page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Task Page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">KR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Process Page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BY || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wednesday 25th Jan ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Resource Page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday 27th Jan || Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluation Page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday 27th Jan || Y ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Conclusion & Reflection page || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">TR || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Friday 27th Jan ||  ||
 * __Forward Planning Document__**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ICT Statement**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Use of ICT__

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The three forms of ICT that we selected for the students to use are as followed:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blogs and wiki;
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website design – market research; and,
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Digital camera or phone

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These three forms are all integrated into the learning outcomes, as outlined by the WA Curriculum Framework.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using a wiki site allows each group member the opportunity to upload their research on a secure site, allowing only their group members and teacher the opportunity to view and edits these documents. Secondly, the students have an opportunity to engage and use a blog forum like edublogs.org to comment on indiviudal postings and issues specifically related to this project. This will be useful for team brainstorming ideas and a tool that allows group communication when completing tasks at home.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, discuss and comment on business names, colours, logo ideas and which competitors website they liked or disliked. This information forms the basis of their group discussion in lesson 2 and will provide the students with relevant information that they will incorporate in to the planning component of their small business. In addition, engaging and using these two forms of ICT will assist the students in achieving the learning outcomes of this project.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website design is one of the market research components of this assessment. The in-class task in lesson one will introduce and teach the students why businesses conduct market research. Secondly, will demonstrate how obtaining this information will guide and direct key business decisions in relation to their design and implementation of their website. The students will be required to search and compare different websites of businesses and discuss components that they liked and disliked using a blog forum. This will provide students with enough bakcground information and ideas to design and build their own website in lesson 3.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally, the use of a digital camera or iPhone teaches the students how to capture images via an ICT medium and upload images of themselves via their website. The use of the photos is up to the digression of the student groups, but can be used for a variety of tasks such us background images, attention grabbing images or contact details. It is an integration of ICT as students are required to capture the image, load it to the computer and edit it to the way in which they wish to use it.