1. Curriculum Aims & Objectives
1.1. Aims: to help develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that students:
1.1.1. Creative, innovative and enterprising when dealing with 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 and 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. Key Concepts, Ideas & Student diversity
2.1. Key concepts
2.1.1. abstraction
2.1.2. data collection
2.1.3. specification
2.1.4. digital systems
2.1.5. interactions
2.2. key ideas
2.2.1. Creating preferred futures
2.2.2. project management
2.3. Student diversity
2.3.1. Committed to high quality curriculum that promotes excellence and equity in education
2.3.2. each student is entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs
2.3.3. Teachers take into account students current learning including: strengths, goals and interests and make adjustments where necessary.
2.3.4. cater for diverse needs and personalise their learning
2.3.5. Students with a disability: slight adjustments to the curriculum in the way that it is taught so that they are able to achieve the intended learning outcomes
2.3.6. English as an additional language or dialect: are provided with additional time and support to meet intended achievement standards and complete learning.
2.3.7. Gifted and talent students.
3. Content Descriptions & Content Elaborations
3.1. Digital technologies knowledge and understanding
3.1.1. Representation of data
3.1.2. digital systems
3.1.3. interactions and impact
3.2. digital technologies processes and production skills
3.2.1. managing and analysing data
3.2.2. using digital systems
3.2.3. specification, algorithms and implementation
3.2.4. creating and interacting online
4. Subjects & Strands
4.1. Subjects
4.1.1. Design & Technology
4.1.2. Digital Technology
4.2. Strands
4.2.1. Knowledge and understanding
4.2.2. Processes and production skills.
5. General Capabilities & Cross Curricular Priorities
5.1. General Capabilities
5.1.1. Critical and creative thinking
5.1.2. Numeracy
5.1.3. Personal and social capability
5.1.4. Information and communication techonology
5.1.5. Ethical understanding
5.1.6. intercultural understanding
5.2. Cross Curriculum priorities
5.2.1. Aboriginal and torres strait islanders histories and cultures
5.2.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia
5.2.3. Sustainability- strong focus in information technology subjects.