1. Content Descriptions
1.1. CDs tell teachers what they are expected to teach and the students what they are to learn.
1.2. Specific to each Year Level
1.3. Outline the knowledge, skills and understanding expected
2. Links to Other Learning Areas
2.1. English
2.2. Mathematics
2.3. Science
2.4. History
2.5. Geography
2.6. The Arts
2.7. Health & PE
3. Assessment
3.1. Ongoing Formative
3.1.1. Purpose: Monitoring
3.2. Learning and Providing Feedback
3.2.1. Inform teachers of their teaching
3.2.2. Inform students of their learning
3.3. Summative Assessment
3.3.1. Purpose: Reporting by schools to parents and carers on progress and achievement of students
4. Student Diversity
4.1. Students with disabilities
4.2. EAL/D Students
4.3. Gifted and Talented Students
5. Band Levels
5.1. Foundation to Year 2
5.2. Years 3 & 4
5.3. Years 5 & 6
5.4. Years 7 & 8
5.5. Years 9 & 10
6. Subjects
6.1. Digital Technology Strands
6.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
6.1.1.1. How data are represented and structured symbolically
6.1.1.2. Components of digital systems: software, hardware and networks
6.1.1.3. Use, development and impact of information systems in people’s lives
6.1.2. Processes and Production Skills
6.1.2.1. Collecting, managing and interpreting data
6.1.2.2. Using a range of digital systems and their components and peripherals
6.1.2.3. Defining problems and specifying and implementing their solutions
6.1.2.4. Creating and communicating information, safely using appropriate protocols
6.2. Design & Technology Strands
6.2.1. Knowledge and Understanding
6.2.1.1. Use, development and impact of technologies in people’s lives
6.2.1.2. Design concepts across a range of technologies contexts
6.2.2. Processes and Production Skills
6.2.2.1. Critiquing, exploring and investigating needs or opportunities
6.2.2.2. Generating, developing and evaluating design ideas for designed solutions
6.2.2.3. Planning, producing and evaluating designed solutions
7. Content Elaborations
7.1. Expand the CDs
7.2. Provide ideas for teaching and learning experiences
8. Curriculum Aims and Objectives
8.1. Design and Technology
8.1.1. Students will gain knowledge, understanding and skills to conceive, design and produce working solutions to identified problems.
8.2. Digital Technology
8.2.1. Students will gain knowledge, understanding and skills to develop, use, manipulate and produce appropriate digital technologies.
9. Key Concepts & Ideas
9.1. Technologies (Thinking)
9.1.1. Systems Thinking
9.1.2. Design Solutions and Development
9.1.3. Computational Thinking
9.1.4. Problem-solving
9.1.5. Communicating and Recording Information/Data
9.1.6. Safety and Ethics
9.2. Overarching Idea: Creating preferred futures
9.3. Organisational and Project Management
9.4. Digital Technologies
9.4.1. Abstraction
9.4.2. Data Collection
9.4.3. Specification, algorithms and implementation
9.4.4. Digital Systems
9.4.5. Interactions