Design and digital technologies

1. Curriculum Aims and Objectives

1.1. Investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions

1.2. Are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time

1.3. Make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future

1.4. Engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies − materials, data, systems, components, tools and equipment − when designing and creating solutions

2. Subjects and Strands

2.1. Design and Technologies

2.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

2.1.2. Processes and Production Skills

2.2. Digital Technologies

2.2.1. Knowledge and Understanding

2.2.2. Processes and Production Skills

3. Key Concepts and Ideas

3.1. The overarching idea is: Creating Preferred Futures.

3.2. Project management

3.3. Thinking in technologies

4. General Capabilities

4.1. Literacy

4.2. Numeracy

4.3. Intercultural Understanding

4.4. Personal and Social Capability

4.5. Critical and Creative Thinking

4.6. ICT

4.7. Ethical Understanding

5. Student Diversity

5.1. Students with disability

5.2. English as an additional language or dialiect

5.3. Gifted and Talented students

6. Cross-curriculum Priorities

6.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

6.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

6.3. Sustainability

7. Content Descriptions and Elaborations

7.1. Content descriptions are different for each year level (Foundation to year 10). They describe the knowledge, understandings and skills that students need to attain during the unit of work.

7.2. Content elaborations are different for each year level (Foundation to year 10). Their purpose is to give teachers some guidelines in order to better teach the concepts.

8. Acheivement Standards

8.1. The achievement standard describes the quality of the learning. The achievement standard in each subject describes what progress students should be making in the subject.

9. Band Descriptions

9.1. The band description gives information about the content descriptors and achievement standard. The band description gives context to the learning.

10. Links to other learning areas

10.1. English

10.2. Mathematics

10.3. Science

10.4. Geography

10.5. The Arts

10.6. Health and Physical Education

10.7. Economics and Buisiness

11. Link to the Australian Curriculum Website http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale

12. resources available

12.1. PicCollage https://dtm4260.edublogs.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=1947&action=edit

12.2. Edmodo http://dtm4260.edublogs.org/2015/08/10/edmodo-2/