IT knowledge and skills covered in this module
- Reviewing database use
- Creating a database
- Calculations in databases
- Sorting records
- Finding and counting data items
- Creating a data entry screen
Suggested further uses across the curriculum
- Economics and Business (for organising data). Gather relevant and reliable data and information from a range of digital, online and print sources (ACHES056).
- Mathematics (for a range of applications across the maths curriculum).
- Civics and Citizenship (organising information). Identify, gather and sort information and ideas from a range of sources and reference as appropriate (ACHCS096).
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
- Managing and operating ICT
Other general capabilities covered
- Numeracy
- Personal and social capability
Digital Technologies curriculum content in this module
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)
- 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)
- 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)
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