Digital Technology
TECHNOLOGY FACULTY
| 🎓 Course Type | Elective |
|---|---|
| 🧩 Units | 1 |
| 🗓 Timing | Year 9 or 10 |
| ⏱ Hours per week | 3 |
| 📚 Prior Experience | year 9 no requirements, year 10 completion of year 9 course |
| ✏️ Selection | Students can choose 1 semester in year 9. In year 10 students can elect to develop a self directed project building on skills from the year 9 course. |
| 🧭 Future Pathways | I.T. professional, Programmer, Systems Analyst, Network Communications, Electronic Engineer, Interface Designer, Scientific Research, Inventor |
Digital Technology is a one-semester course, designed to allow students to develop computer related skills to acquire, organise and present information. Students also investigate the social aspects of technology and how it impacts on our society.
The introductory section of the course helps students to get the most out of their laptops for research and presentation of work, with a focus given to methods commonly used by learning areas within the school.
The second section of the subject encourages students to examine trends in technology and to become leaders in implementation of technology on their laptops. Students are introduced to new media streams such as: Newsreaders, Podcasts, and Video Blogs to enable them to keep their technical knowledge current. Technology investigations include discussions of hardware and software that vary with the quickly changing landscape of digital technologies.
Students work on a range of short projects to improve their skills in data handling and presentation as well as longer projects, which encourage students to research technology projects, of their own choosing, in more depth. Students are encouraged to develop proactive learning habits that will enable them to keep their technology skills current over the course of time.
Student work often includes topics such as: virtual reality, social media, mobile computing, GPS and mapping systems, data handling, copyright issues, privacy issues, Google applications, data visualisation, ergonomics, hardware specifications and backup strategies.
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