1. Curriculum objectives
1.1. aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that individually and collaboratively students can:
1.1.1. be creative and innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies.
1.1.2. understand how technology changes over time.
1.1.3. Students will be able to select appropriate resources when designing and creating products, services, environments and digital solutions.
1.1.4. Evaluate technologies process to identify and create solutions to a range of problems.
1.1.5. Investigate, design, plan, manage create produce and evaluate technologies solutions
1.1.6. make ethical decisions when using technology.
1.1.7. make decisions about technology that will benefit society.
2. Subjects
2.1. Design and Technology .
2.2. Digital Technologies.
3. Strands
3.1. Knowledge and understanding.
3.2. Processes and production skills.
4. Key concepts
4.1. Abstraction.
4.2. Data collection.
4.3. Specification.
4.4. Digital systems.
4.5. Interactions.
5. Key ideas
5.1. Creating preferred futures
5.2. project management
6. General capabilities.
6.1. Literacy.
6.2. Critical and creative thinking.
6.3. Numeracy.
6.4. Personal and social capability.
6.5. Information and communication technology.
6.6. Ethical understanding.
6.7. Intercultural understanding.
7. Student diversity
7.1. committed to the development of a high quality curriculum for all Australian students.
7.1.1. Students with disability.
7.1.1.1. Slight adjustments to the curriculum is sometimes used so that those with a disability will have an equal chance at succeeding.
7.1.2. English as an additional language or dialect.
7.1.2.1. These students may need additional time and support to complete learning.
7.1.3. Gifted and talented students.
7.2. All students are entitled to a rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs.
8. Cross curriculum priorities
8.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders histories and cultures.
8.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia.
8.3. Sustainability.
8.3.1. Sustainability is a strong focus in the information technologies subjects.
9. Content descriptions
9.1. Digital technologies knowledge and understanding.
9.1.1. Representation of data.
9.1.2. Digital systems
9.1.3. Interactions and impact
9.2. Digital technologies processes and production skills
9.2.1. Managing and analysing data.
9.2.2. Using digital systems.
9.2.3. Specification, algorithms and implementation.
9.2.4. Creating and interacting online.