Australian Technologies Curriculum Overview

1. Achievement Standards

1.1. Defines the quality of learning and Signifies that students are demonstrating the required skills to commence the learning at the next level.

1.2. Provides teachers with a framework of development in each technologies subject and a sequence of expected learning outcomes.

2. Band Levels

2.1. Foundation to Year 2

2.2. Years 3 and 4

2.3. Years 5 and 6

2.4. Years 7 and 8

2.5. Years 9 and 10

3. Content

3.1. Content Descriptors

3.1.1. Sequences the learning in an appropriate order for the particular band level indicating the knowledge, understanding and skills that students are expected to learn and teachers need to teach.

3.2. Content Elaborations

3.2.1. Expand on the content descriptors and provide teachers with ideas and assistance in what needs to be taught.

4. Cross Curriculum Priorities

4.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

4.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

4.3. Sustainability

5. Student Diversity

5.1. All students have the right to relevant and rigorous learning opportunities. Teachers need to consider and make adjustments for the range of strengths, interests and abilities of students.

5.1.1. Students with disability

5.1.2. English as an additional language or dialect

5.1.3. Gifted and talented students

6. Key Ideas

6.1. Creating preferred futures

6.2. Project Management

7. Key Concepts

7.1. Abstraction

7.2. Data

7.3. Specification

7.4. Implementation

7.5. Impacts

7.6. Interactions

7.7. Digital Systems

7.8. Algorithms

8. Links to other learning areas

8.1. English

8.2. Science

8.3. Mathematics

8.4. Geography

8.5. Health and Physical Education

8.6. The Arts

9. Subject

9.1. Digital Technologies

9.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

9.1.2. Process and Production Skills

9.2. Design and Technology

9.2.1. Knowledge and Understanding

9.2.2. Process and Production Skills

10. Structure

10.1. Knowledge and Understanding

10.2. Processes and Production Skills

11. General Capabilities

11.1. LIT

11.2. Numeracy

11.3. Information and communication technology capability

11.4. Critical and creative thinking

11.5. Personal and social capability

11.6. Ethical understanding

11.7. Intercultural understanding

12. Aims

12.1. • Creative, innovative and enterprising when using technologies

12.2. • Designing and creating products by manipulating appropriate technologies, resources, materials, data, systems, tools and equipment.

12.3. • Create and evaluate technology solutions through investigation, design, planning and managing.

12.4. •Engage positively and make informed future choices about technologies.

13. Teaching Resources

13.1. Digital Technologies Resource

13.1.1. http://dtm4260.edublogs.org/2015/08/07/digital-technologies-classdojos/

13.2. Design and Technology Resource

13.2.1. http://dtm4260.edublogs.org/2015/08/09/foldify/