Teacher information

IT knowledge and skills covered in this module

  • The different types of graphics programs
  • Creating a drawing
  • Editing objects
  • Using text and symbols in designs
  • Using freehand drawing tools
  • Creating detailed designs

Suggested further uses across the curriculum

  • English (for creating information posters or flowcharts). Use a range of software, including word processing programs, confidently, flexibly and imaginatively to create, edit and publish texts, considering the identified purpose and the characteristics of the user (ACELY1748, ACELY1776).
  • Media Arts (for creating animations). Develop and refine media production skills to integrate and shape the technical and symbolic elements in images, sounds and text for a specific purpose, meaning and style (ACAMAM075).
  • Science (for creating classroom safety posters). Communicate scientific ideas and information for a particular purpose, including constructing evidence-based arguments and using appropriate scientific language, conventions and representations (ACSIS208).

Alignment with the Australian Curriculum

ICT Capability elements covered
  • Creating with ICT
  • Communicating with ICT
    • collaborate, share and exchange
    • understand computer mediated communications
  • Managing and operating ICT
Other general capabilities covered
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability
Digital Technologies curriculum content in this module
Processes and production skills
  • 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)
  • Design the user experience of a digital system by evaluating alternative designs against criteria including functionality, accessibility, usability, and aesthetics (ACTDIP039)
  • Plan and manage projects using an iterative and collaborative approach, identifying risks and considering safety and sustainability (ACTDIP044)

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