Digital Technology 8
TECHNOLOGY FACULTY
| š Ā Course Type | Elective |
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| š§© Ā Units | 1 |
| ā± Ā Hours per week | 3 |
| āļø Ā Selection | 1 - 3 Technology Electives to be selected in Year 8 |
| š§ Ā Future Pathways | Leads to further electives in Years 9 and 10 including Digital; Technology, Programming, Computer Graphics and Design and Multimedia. |
Digital Technology is a one-semester course that encourages students to examine current trends in technology and to become leaders in its implementation. 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.
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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. Students also investigate the social aspects of technology and how it impacts on our society.
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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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Students are assessed on the degree to which they can:
- Communicate ideas and information
- Complete work in a specified time
- Select and use technologies
- Collect and categorise information
- Plan, organise and complete activities
- Solve problems.Ā