IT knowledge and skills covered in this module
- The digital information system
- Computer hardware
- Computer software
- Networks
- Data
- The information processing cycle
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum
ICT Capability elements covered
- Investigating with ICT
- define and plan information searches
- Creating with ICT
- Communicating with ICT
- collaborate, share and exchange
- understand computer mediated communications
Other general capabilities covered
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Critical and creative thinking
- Personal and social capability
- Managing and operating ICT
Digital Technologies curriculum content in this module
Knowledge and understanding
- Digital systems – Investigate the role of hardware and software in managing, controlling and securing the movement of and access to data in networked digital systems (ACTDIK034)
- Representation of data – Analyse simple compression of data and how content data are separated from presentation (ACTDIK035)
Processes and production skills
- Develop techniques for acquiring, storing and validating quantitative and qualitative data from a range of sources, considering privacy and security requirements (ACTDIP036)
- Analyse and visualise data to create information and address complex problems, and model processes, entities and their relationships using structured data (ACTDIP037)
- Define and decompose real-world problems precisely, taking into account functional and non-functional requirements and including interviewing stakeholders to identify needs (ACTDIP038)
- Evaluate critically how student solutions and existing information systems and policies take account of future risks and sustainability and provide opportunities for innovation and enterprise (ACTDIP042)
- Create interactive solutions for sharing ideas and information online, taking into account safety, social contexts and legal responsibilities (ACTDIP043)
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