Cyber Culture and Education

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• critically analyse and compare sociological, cultural or philosophical psychological theories about the relationship between information technology and society.
• demonstrate an understanding of the historical development of theories about information and communications technologies and education;
• identify analyse relationships between information and communications technology and legal and ethical issues.

Generic Skills

At the completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• develop evidence based arguments associated with social theory relevant to information technology;
• demonstrate an ability to contribute to online discussion in a constructively critical was;
• develop skill in communicating online, in writing and using various information technologies.