Oh, Yeah! Casey faced the same problem exactly like me and here is David's explanation for PART D about factors.

• Evaluation (15 marks)
  • What were the successes you achieved? What made them successful and why?
  • What were the not so successful components and why?
    Note: Your failure to plan appropriately or prepare a backup plan for technology failure, can only form one of these not so successful stories. The focus should be on student learning. When did students not learn as effectively as you hoped? Why?
  • What factors (within the school/classroom) impacted on you ICT integration?
    See above note about failure to plan.
  • Refer to the rubric "component" is all the evaluations that I contained each one description of what was successful and one that is not so successful. Then there is also description of the factors that impacted on your use of ICT to enhance student learning.

SINI,SAYA BETUL TAK FAHAM, APAKAH FAKTOR YANG DI MAKSUDKAN BOLEH MENGPENGARUHIKAN KEGUNAAN ICT DALAM PERKEMBANGAN PEMBELANJARAN SEORANG PELAJAR?

Identifying the factors

For each of the experiences I have captured previously on why do the experience during PE and how I evaluate to explain to your mentor (or yourself) why it had happened? How is my mentor responded? So, this is what caused the factors at play? And I need to contributed to the experience playing out the way it did? Was it the students, their characteristics, their behaviours, the time of day? Was it myself? My mentor? The lesson? The technology? My lesson planning, knowledge or lack thereof?

Re: Part D advice and help please
by David Jones - Tuesday, 10 June 2014, 12:24 PM

G'day Casey,
It would be really helpful, for me at least, if you described what you currently understand about the factors section. No matter how little it is, some description of where you are in terms of understanding helps guide any advice and tips.
The assignment 3 description describes this section of Part D as
What factors (within the school/classroom) impacted on you ICT integration?

This page from the Week 15 learning path is aimed at helping you identify these factors. It has a range of questions, in particular these
What contributed to the experience playing out the way it did? Was it the students, their characteristics, their behaviours, the time of day? Was it you? Your mentor? The lesson? The technology? Your planning, knowledge or lack thereof?

A mentor who is ICT phobic and has created a negative perception of ICTs in their classroom would likely be a factor that impacts your integration of ICT into lessons to enhance student learning.
A PE context that has really old technology that never works, would be another factor.
You could also turn these around. A mentor really into ICTs would probably be a great help in your planning.
The aim here is to identify what was in your experience that helped or hindered your use of ICTs.

Re: Part D advice and help please by David Jones - Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 2:06 PM

G'day Casey, What you've described - students being familiar and experienced with the use of a particular ICT - could indeed be a factor. You've also offered a bit of a description suggesting that this was a positive impact and given one explanation why it was positive. The next step for the above would be to find literature/theory etc to support your position. This doesn't need to be literature/theory related directly to ICTs, but should aim to support your explanation as to why this factor was a positive factor. If you aren't familiar with any literature/theory that might support this, then it's time to do a bit of searching with Google Scholar, the library databases, or perhaps even initially general search engines. David.

More advice on "factors" for Part D
by David Jones - Wednesday, 11 June 2014, 11:50 AM

G'day All,

The following is from a reply I've just given to an email from a student. It includes another explanation of what we are looking for in your "factors" description for Part D of Assignment 3.

I do strongly advise you to share your essays with fellow EDC3100 students. Especially if you tell them to be brutal and pick up everything that makes them go "what the?"

What are we looking for from the ‘factors’ in Part D?

Answers would include:
A clear, concise, correct and interesting description of some factor that actually did impact on your ability to integrate the use of ICTs into your teaching in order to enhance student learning.

E.g. “My mentor had red hair” is not a good factor.

A clear, concise, correct….explanation of how this factor impacted your ability to integrate the use of ICTs into…..

This is a bit repetitive, but it’s important. Your description of the factor should make it clear how this factor impacted you use of ICTs. Did it help it? Did it hinder it? How did it do this?

A clear, concise, correct…explanation of why this factor impacted your ability to integrate the use of ICTs into….

This is a little different again. You need to show that you have understood why this factor impacted

An explanation that makes connections with previous parts of your assignment 3 (e.g. Part B, Part C or earlier bits of Part D).

An explanation that draws on professional and academic literature, theory and frameworks and uses these correctly.

An explanation that doesn’t make the marker go “what the?”

We see this all the time. You read a sentence in an essay and it just doesn't make sense. In some cases this is because the explanation assumes the marker knows a whole range of detail of what happened on PE, that they just can't. More often it's an incorrect usage of a theory or a term.

An explanation where it is really simple for the marker to see all of the above.

Marker’s are human. Especially after reading the 25th Part D essay. The easier it is for them to see that you’ve “ticked all the boxes” above, the better.