Curriculum

=** Curri culum ** =

Embedding Glogster into the SOSE curriculum for year five students will help students to realise the connectedness between technology and the real world. They will be able to see the value of technology as a means to express their “interests, thoughts and understandings” (Walter, 2009). According to the Information Communication Technology Cross-Curriculum Priority by the end of year 5, students should be “competent, discriminating, creative and productive users of ICTs” (QSA, 2007).  Under the Creating with ICTs section of this document students should be able to “develop simple plans to create imaginative responses” (QSA, 2007). Glogster is a simple program that allows students to creatively plan and design online posters. It also allows students to “express and represent ideas, information and thinking” (QSA, 2007) through the text tool in which students can paste information detailing the required task.  QSA (2007) states that when creating with ICTs, students should be able to create imaginative responses that demonstrate the required features of the task. Using Glogster, students are able to combine images, videos and text to communicate the required information of the assessment. They are able to utilise the interactive social feature to reflect and evaluate the effectiveness of their glogster, according the ICTs Cross Curriculum Priority (QSA, 2007).