IT Middle School Teaching Package Based on Australian History.

Assignment 1 -- Teaching Package with Rationale Australian History Objectives To develop a teaching package based on Australian History while incorporating information and communication technologies. This package aims to give students a fundamental understanding on Australian Discovery, Colonisation, Land exploration, Aboriginal Legends and also to exercise their current knowledge of 21st century Australia by comparing how much Australia has changed as a country from first discovery to today. Lesson Plans Lesson 1: (40 mins) Discovery and Colonisation - …

…of using technology in the classroom, there are probably just as many who disagree with the concept. Parents may have concerns that their children would lose their ability to relate to other human beings, they would become dependent on technology to learn or they will find inappropriate materials. Technology can be used inappropriately, but it has given students unbounded access to information which can be turned into knowledge, which makes it a great learning tool.