Assessment Task 2: ePortfolio

Task Overview

When you plan a sequence of learning experiences, it should always be founded upon the nature of the content, the learning outcomes, and your values and beliefs about effective classroom pedagogy and learning.

This task is designed to make explicit to the reader your decision-making process and thinking as you work towards the engagement of your learners in a short sequence of lessons in your classroom. The designed learning sequence should meet the descriptors of learning at the modification and redefinition levels of SAMR as has been expanded upon in Assessment 1, Reflective Synopsis. It should demonstrate high-end digital pedagogy, and complex, problematic, authentic learning.

• The learning sequence will be drawn from an idea/site/resource that you have discovered online. The assessment task uses digital curation as a collaborative process through which you will share, and possibly find your selected resource.

• As part of the process of finding and selecting resources, you will create and share, and engage with others through the creation of a digital curated collection of artefacts in a Scoop.it site. As with Assessment 1, this task is built upon timely and active participation in the unit and its activities.

• As a group, you are inter-dependent, and you will demonstrate and evidence this professional engagement through interchanges in your curated digital collections of teaching ideas. This interchange will inform a final reflection on your professional engagement as it is aligned with AITSL Graduate Standards 6.2 and 7.4.

• Your decision-making processes will be scaffolded through a series of tasks, embedded in the Moodle materials. Each of the tasks will result in the creation of a portfolio artefact which will be uploaded and stored in your website portfolio. Together, these artefacts will justify your decisions as you plan your learning series, and will act together as a collection of items that are presented in your portfolio to demonstrate your insight.

• Your portfolio will culminate in a learning narrative, which is written from the perspective of a learner in your classroom. It is the story of the key events experienced by your learner as they proceed through the learning sequence. It will evidence the actioning of the plans that you have drawn together.

Your portfolio will be presented as a website (Google Sites/Wix/Weebly/Wordpress), however it is anticipated that it will likely include artefacts (linked and embedded) that may be presented in other online sites.

The total length of this task is anticipated to be the equivalent of 3000 words.

Task Details

The portfolio artefacts are created regularly throughout Weeks 6 – 12. Details and models will be presented in the Moodle materials each week.

The portfolio must include the following, in the form of your choice:

• A pedagogy ‘map’ that integrates digital pedagogy with the Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities for your discipline area.

• A link to a curated collection of digital resources, in which a single resource/artefact is selected to underpin the design of a learning sequence that maximises the potential of digital pedagogy. If you are combining more than one element, identify both/all of them.

• A link to your curator’s insight which is attached to your single resource/artefact (or your nominated collection) in your curated collection that shares your insight into the value of the artefact(s) to support transformative learning design, and how it will be used in your classroom context.

• The development of a learning sequence (mini-unit), based on this selected resource/artefact that reflects the pedagogy identified in your pedagogy ‘map’, as well as the use of digital technologies to transform learning as identified in your ICT alignment plan.

• A brief profile of a representative student in your class, including their learning needs. A narrative written from the perspective of the student (written in first person), showing how your students will “live” the digital pedagogy that you have identified in your pedagogy and ICT alignment map.

(CQU, 2021)