University Handbook
2024 unit information
Trimester 2: Online with intensive seminars
2024 will be the final offering of this unit
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
4 x 2-hour online seminars, 4-days of face-to-face seminars
Ad-hoc additional optional online sessions will be offered by CIRCLS team to support return-to-study, academic skills, and study skills. Mentoring groups of five or six students led by experienced Design and Technologies teachers will also meet regularly.
Engineering systems, food and fibre production explores engineering principles and systems related to how forces can be used to create light, sound, heat, movement, control and support in systems. Students will develop an understanding of how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour and performance of designed engineering solutions through the design and trialling of a design brief. This unit also explores food and fibre production considering food and fibre as human-produced or harvested resources, and how food and fibre are produced in managed environments such as farms or plantations or harvested from wild stocks. Students will develop an understanding of the challenges involved in managing these resources through creating designed solutions in sustainable agricultural systems. They will develop teaching and learning approaches that support learning.
Apply specialist knowledge to predict how force, motion, energy, and the properties of materials affect the behaviour and performance of designed engineering solutions
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Create and justify designed solutions that demonstrate sustainable agricultural/food/fibre systems and explore how food and fibre is produced
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
Develop activities and approaches to teaching and learning that apply the design and systems thinking process
Evaluate curriculum requirements and synthesise these with learner needs to generate teaching and learning sequences that incorporate contemporary design practice principles.
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via EDT706
This unit does not have a prescribed text and essential and recommended learning resources used will be accessible via the online unit site and/or the Deakin Library. Further resources will be provided during the four face-to-face on-site intensives.
Recommended learning resources will be provided to support learning and assessment completion, but enrolled teachers will also be expected to also use the materials and technologies in their own school and community and will be mentored to develop skills in locating, accessing and using resources and materials and their safe use.
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