Engagement
A school-university partnership will be formed to facilitate the innovative use of ICT as a change agent to support learning, and to promote engagement of students, teachers, pre-service teachers and lecturers in learning.
The project will focus on concepts explained in “Student Motivation and Engagement” published by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), compiled by Dr V Jean Russell, Dr Mary Ainley, and Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg
Evidence about the relationship of engagement to achievement comes from large-scale surveys, both cross-sectional and longitudinal, as well as from classroom and school-based studies.
This project aims to go beyond the PISA engagement measures of attendance and punctuality, to the findings that “Students will engage with tasks they find interesting, challenging and important” and looking specifically at learning goals and outcomes, such as more complex thinking and learning capacities, and attempting to develop creative, observational and qualitative approaches to enrich the understanding of how complex and varying individuals interact with complex and varying environments.1. What does student engagement look like when ICT is used to support learning?
2. How do educators' perceptions of student engagement change as a result of involvement in a collaborative project focusing on engagement and ICT in learning?
Term 1 2009 - Planning including participant selection and Awareness Raising Workshop
Term 2 2009 - Implementation of in-school learning initiatives and Evaluation Workshop
Term 3 2009 - Host Expo and prepare journal paper, vodcasts and online reports, paper submission to ACEC 2010 and ICTLT 2009
Term 4 2009 - Attend ICTLT International Conference, Singapore
Term 2 2010 - Attend ACEC2010 National Conference in Melbourne
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