EDUC4810
10 units
4000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course provides students with knowledge and skills to analyse, interpret and evaluate media in the Primary Curriculum. The course introduces key concepts in media arts: media languages, media technologies, media narrative styles and media points of view to audiences. Through inquiry-based learning, collaboration and student-centred pedagogy, students will design and create relevant production tasks, build their skills with media forms, and explore the application of media arts technologies. Students will engage with traditional and digital media to build media arts competencies.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Summer 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and skills of media arts forms and equipment, and the communication of creative ideas to audiences, specifically in primary classroom learning contexts.
2. Demonstrate ability to create, analyse and appreciate media arts learning products through production processes and the application of communication technologies.
3. Demonstrate capacity to design effective media arts learning projects to build knowledge and skills in the primary classroom.
Content
- Building media arts skills and knowledge in pre-production, production and post-production: designing and applying media arts concepts to communicate key ideas to an intended audience.
- Develop an ability to create, analyse and appreciate media arts learning products.
- Use communication technologies in a creative way to tell stories and explore concepts for diverse purposes.
- Designing learning across KLAs with different media arts forms.
- Engage in effective media literacy and media arts education in the Primary classroom.
Requisites
Enrolment in this course is dependent on meeting the teacher education admission milestone of successful completion of
- Three HSC band 5s (including one in English) or
- 80 units of UoN courses or
- Regulatory authority approved comparable pathways or
- Commencement in the program pre 2016
Students must have successfully completed or be concurrently enrolled in EDUC3745.
Teacher Education Milestone
Assessment items
Project: Research Project
Practical Demonstration: Film & Animation Workshop Exercises
Project: Comic Book Storytelling Project
Contact hours
Summer 2 - 2024 - Callaghan
Integrated Learning Session-1
- Online 6 hour(s) per term
- Integrated learning will typically consist of a series of online activities, presentation. This is an accelerated course
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 8 hour(s) per term
- Compressed delivery format is typical.
Workshop-1
- Face to Face On Campus 16 hour(s) per term
- Compressed delivery format is typical.
Course outline
- EDUC4810 - Ls, 2024 (All) (PDF, 579.2 KB)
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