Introduction

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The school is located on the northern end of the Sunshine Coast. The unit will be implemented with a Year 5 class of 25 students. The class is predominantly made up of boys with a gender mix of eighteen boys and seven girls. This particular cohort of learners has a range of ability levels and preferred learning styles. Extensive profiling of this cohort of learners has led to the identification of a high percentage of kinaesthetic and auditory learners (Gardner, 1983, as cited in McInerney & McInerney, 2006). This data was central to the design of the unit as it influenced the strategies employed to best cater for the students learning styles. Kinaesthetic learners were catered for through continual drafting and modifying of playground designs and the final production of a 3D playground model. A wiki was designed to scaffold student learning throughout the unit and encourage collaborative work. A voki was embedded within the wiki to provide essential information and assist as a scaffolding tool to guide students sequentially through the task. YouTube clips were also employed to maximize learning opportunities for visual and auditory learners. This cohort of learners have been observed as ‘digital native students’ and as a result, a high quality pedagogical approach has been developed in order to connect with the learner’s primary discourse (Gee, 1996).