TED403: Technology and Education Reflective Essay Help

Assessment Task

Write a reflective essay drawing on what you have learned so far about educational technology, evaluation of the proposed technology solutions relating to a challenge in a learning community you chose, and the evaluation criteria you created in Assessment 2. Discuss the ethical implications, strengths and challenges of implementing the technology solutions, and reflect on any changes to your capabilities, viewpoints and experiences around technology in education.

Please refer to the Instructions for details on how to complete this task.

Context

In this assessment task, you will critically evaluate your proposed technology solutions, focusing on their strengths, challenges and ethical implications. Using a reflective approach, you will continuously enhance your technology capabilities and viewpoints, enabling you to make informed, evidence-based, ethical decisions for integrating educational technologies in the future.

Instructions

To complete this assessment task, you will follow the steps below.

1. Gather evidence of the effectiveness of your proposed technology solutions in the aspects of ethical implications, strengths and challenges of implementing solutions. The evidence can come from relevant sources, both scholarly (journal articles, books etc.) and non- scholarly (personal blogs, websites etc.).
2. Reflect on your solutions to reveal any changes to your capabilities, viewpoints and experiences around technology in education.
3. Write a reflective essay of 1,500 words (+/- 10%) using the suggested structure below. Headings are not necessary in an essay.
4. Introduction (approx. 150 words): Outline the purpose and structure of your essay.

   1. Evaluation (approx. 600 words): Evaluate three main aspects: ethics, strengths and challenges of the implementation. Guiding questions:

      • How do the proposed solutions impact stakeholders' privacy, autonomy and rights?
      • What ethical implications or considerations arise from your proposed solutions?
      • How do you ensure your proposed solutions uphold ethical standards and respect diverse perspectives? What ethical principles do you use?
      • What are the main strengths of the proposed solutions?
      • What evidence or examples support the strengths of similar technology solutions elsewhere?
      • What are the main challenges of implementing the proposed solutions?
      • How might resource constraints and/or resistance from stakeholders affect implementation in the learning community?

5. Reflection (approx. 600 words): Reflect on any changes to your capabilities, viewpoints and experiences. Guiding questions:

   • What new skills or competencies have you developed through this experience of proposing and evaluating the technology solutions?
     • How have these skills enhanced your ability to achieve your goals with educational technology?
     • How have your perspectives of educational technology evolved during this experience? What factors influenced these changes in your viewpoint, if any? What wouldn’t you want to change and why?
     • What lessons have you learned from this experience?
     • How do you plan to further develop your capabilities based on these reflections?
6. Conclusion (approx. 150 words): Summarise the key points in your essay.
7. Write in the first person. This is about YOU and your evaluation, reflection and interpretation. Try to be as specific as possible, use relevant evidence from the literature to illustrate your points, and try to select examples that enable you to demonstrate your learning against the attributes in the rubric. All other principles of academic writing apply, including acknowledgement of the work of others and avoidance of plagiarism.

Referencing

It is essential that you use current APA style for citing and referencing the sources that you use. Please see more information on citing and referencing guidelines on the Academic Skills webpage.

Assessment Support

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Academic Integrity

All students are responsible for ensuring that all work submitted is their own, is academically written and appropriately referenced following the Academic Writing Guide. Students need to have read and be aware of the Torrens University Australia Academic Integrity Policy and Academic Integrity Procedure and subsequent penalties for academic misconduct. For more information, please refer to the Academic Integrity guidelines.

Students must also keep all required evidence in making an assessment, a copy of all submitted material and any assessment drafts.

Submission Instructions

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• Subject Code_Surname_First NameInitial_Assessment Number e.g., TED403_Jones_S_Assessment 3.docx

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Special Consideration

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