Inclusive Educational Resource Prepared by Dr Lucinda McKnight for the Education Studies team Introduction You will be designing an original and inclusive educational resource with a civic purpose related to increasing participation, for a particular audience. You will choose and research an organisation for which to design this resource, establish the relevant global, national and organisational policy frameworks informing your design work and incorporate relevant pedagogical principles and strategies we have discussed in the unit. In this process, you will be meeting an authentic need that you have identified, and demonstrating your potential to make a critical and creative impact though this resource. This task links closely to Assessment Task 2, so you will need to be able to try this resource out on your lecturer, peers and intended audience as the basis of a reflective essay for Task 2. This assessment task (2600 words equivalent) is worth 60% of the total assessment for this unit. This assessment task is to be submitted via the assignments folder in CloudDeakin by 11.30 pm on Friday 5 May 2017. Aim The aim of this assessment is to: Enable you to synthesise and demonstrate your evolving understanding of educational principles and strategies in relation to inclusive design. Demonstrate, in a practical and applied way, your evolving critical cultural competence, empathy and sensitivity to the needs of diverse audiences. Provide you with the opportunity to develop skills in communication and problem solving. Contribute to the development of a resource for inclusion in your professional portfolio. Process In consultation with your tutor, select an organisation, purpose, audience and form for your resource. Research the goals and needs of your chosen organisation and think broadly, creatively and strategically to envisage a resource relevant to your own skills and interests. You could design a children’s book, a recruitment brochure, a sculpture or other public work of art, a website, a computer game, a guide, a toolkit, a policy document, a toy, a camp program, a collection of poetry, a film, a graffiti wall, a festival proposal etc. Feel free to use your imagination, while keeping the resource feasible! Research and identify global, national and organisational policies that will inform your design work. Clarify how your resource will comply with or even go beyond these policies, to meet the needs of a particular audience. Design your resource, using the principles and strategies of inclusion and accessibility discussed in the unit. Your resource needs to enhance participation in the broader cultural sense, but also be practically accessible to diverse audiences. Present your resource to the seminar group in Week 8. Be prepared to give and receive feedback in this session. Please note that this presentation itself is not assessed, but provides an opportunity to receive peer feedback relevant to Task 2. Online students will post their presentations on our Cloud discussion site for feedback. Submit your resource as a Word document containing any necessary and accessible links online by 11.30pm on Friday 6 May, 2016. A sample structure for your submission might be: A suitable title. An introduction, which includes your chosen organisation, the rationale for why your resource is needed and what you hope to achieve, the intended audience, the policy background (this can be a dot point list) and key pedagogical strategies employed. Citations and references are required for this introduction. The resource, accessible links to the resource and/or descriptions and representations of it, which may include design documentation, sketches, photographs etc. A conclusion, which describes how you would evaluate the success of your resource, and includes a list of links to related organisations (this list is a key component of your submission- in some cases it may be in the actual resource itself). A correctly formatted reference list following the Deakin Harvard Guide, for any references. What to upload You will upload a single Word file that includes: Your name and student number Your Word document incorporating title, introduction, resource, conclusion and reference list. Please do not hesitate to contact me or your tutor if you would like further information or assistance. Assessment Criteria Your marker will assess you according to the following criteria: Development of an original, engaging and effective educational resource for an authentic context, meeting an authentic need: your resource needs to potentially enhance the participation of a particular group in some aspect of civic life and attempt to engage ethically with diverse people/s. You are demonstrating your emerging critical cultural competence, through this creative response to a perceived need or problem. Synthesis and incorporation of inclusive educational and design principles: this is where you need to demonstrate your evolving disciplinary knowledge of the field of education in the design of your resource. We are seeking deliberate application of strategies and skills you have learnt in the unit about how to design inclusive pedagogy. Identification and explication of relevant global, national and organisational policy environment: you need to demonstrate an awareness of multiple layers of policy (or relevant absences thereof) and also of related organisations that also respond to this environment. This will assist you with providing a rationale for your resource, and demonstrating how it fits with global, national and local priorities and initiatives. Inclusive education does not happen in isolation, so what is providing a policy framework for your resource? Why is it important and worthwhile? We would like to see you explain this clearly with reference to specific documents. Accurate referencing: your in-text citations and reference list will need to be complete and correctly formatted. You will need to include at least five citations and five references, including two references from course materials or readings. The Deakin Harvard Guide will provide you with support for citing and referencing accurately: http://www.deakin.edu.au/students/studying/study-support/referencing/harvard Communication skills in chosen media, plus accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation: you will need to demonstrate proficiency in multimodal and/or written communication.