Blended Learning Design Plan

Your name: McBride Muleya

DESIGN PARAMETERS

Course/programme description:

I offer Information and Communication Technology. Information and Communication Technology is a

course that develops students’ understanding of the implication of technology on many different aspects
of life, these include the home, work, and learning environments. There are two areas covered in the
course, that is, the theoretical and practical. These areas cover ICT concepts on ethics, software
applications, databases and web design.

As partly highlighted, students in this course will learn the theoretical and practical aspects of ICT, such
that, at the end of the course, students should be able to:
 Understand and use applications
 Use information and Communication Technology (ICT) to solve problems
 Analyze, design, implement, test, and evaluate ICT system, ensuring that they are fit for purpose
 Understand the implications of technology in society, including social, economic and ethical uses
 Be aware of the ways ICT can help in home, learning and work environment
These are generic objectives of the course. They can be further dissected in many other objectives.

Course/programme context:

My Institution, Chalo Trust School, is located in Zambia. Chalo Trust School is a Private School. The
context is NOT very well established financially and therefore lacks latest technologies to foster the full
implementation and/or appreciation of the course.

Student demographics and description:

In this course, there are no more than 20 students with the age groups oscillating between 16 and 19
years. The students are in their Secondary/High School level as the age outlines. Because of the blended
learning, the students are computer literate. As highlighted in the Course context, institutional lack of
technologies extends students’ needs. This implies that students lack resources to help them in their
learning.

Available and required resources:

Though leaping, there is internet connection (resource) – the internet connection is based on 30 days
bundle subscription, that is about 120 GB, computer lab with about 19 computers; School Support Hub
where all learning and teaching material can be accessed from; and classroom where most discussions are
done.

Learning objectives: The following learning objectives will not be exhaustive. The objectives are on the
effects of using IT
  describe how there has been a reduction of employment in offices, as workers’ jobs have been
replaced by computers in a number of fields (e.g. payroll workers, typing pools, car production
workers)
 describe how there has been an increase in employment in other fields (e.g. website
designers, computer programmers, delivery drivers in retail stores)
 describe how the use of computers has led to a number of employees changing their
working patterns (e.g. part-time working, flexible hours, job sharing, compressed hours)
 describe what is meant by part-time working, flexible hours, job sharing, compressed
hours
 describe the positive effects microprocessors have on aspects of lifestyle (e.g. the amount
and use of leisure time, the degree of social interaction, the ability to leave the home)
 describe the negative effects microprocessors have on aspects of lifestyle (e.g. lack of
exercise)

DESIGN PLAN

Learning objective Activity Technology requirements/OER Teaching/facilitatio

description n
requirements
 describe how there ONLINE  Internet Connection  Internet
has been a reduction DISCUSSION  Leaning Management System, Edmodo Connection
of employment in https://new.edmodo.com
offices, as workers’ Discuss with  Computers
jobs have been learners the
replaced by computerizatio OER:
computers in a n of some www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z9fbkqt/revision
number of fields (e.g. industries such
payroll workers,
as in
typing pools, car
production workers)
manufacturing,
 describe how there where robots
has been an increase have taken over
in employment in many tasks,
other fields (e.g. computer-
website designers, controlled
computer warehouses,
programmers, which require
delivery drivers in no personnel
retail stores) to be present
and labor-
intensive work
(e.g. the
printing
industry) and
the impact this
has had.
 Learners
discuss in small
groups,
whether
computers do a
better job and
look at why we
do not use
computers in
some areas.
This could then
lead on to a
whole class
activity for
learners to
present their
findings and
thoughts.

 describe the Ask learners to  Leaning Management System, Edmodo

positive effects name 10 devices https://new.edmodo.com
microprocessor in their home  BBC Bitesize pages on impact of ICT on
s have on that contain a lifestyle:
microprocessor. www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z4s39j6/revisi
aspects of
lifestyle (e.g. on
Pick out a few
the amount and different devices
use of leisure that learners
time, the identify and ask
degree of social them what tasks
interaction, the these devices
ability to leave would be able to
the home) perform without
 describe the the
microprocessor
negative effects
microprocessor
(Consolidate the
s have on class discussions
aspects of on the LMS)
lifestyle (e.g.
lack of
exercise)

DESIGN RATIONALE

The design is thought to be effective because it merges well with the context and the level of learner. The
design incorporates face-to-face and online learning, a kind of flipped-classroom. In this paradigm, all
learners are able to participate to the online class discussions without feeling shy; classroom sessions (in-
person) are conducted to consolidate online discourses.