Year 9-10 Digital Technology
Overview
Discover the power of digital technologies in shaping a brighter world while navigating ethical complexities. Explore skills vital for success: critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and computational thinking. Boost your technology and coding confidence alongside enhancing global impact awareness. Our course focuses on honing computational-thinking prowess, delving into digital-system insight and media literacy. Unleash your innovative potential with design thinking, crafting collaborative prototypes and inventive alternatives. Engage in immersive, hands-on learning, fostering a dynamic, fun, and ethical approach to solving real-world challenges. Welcome to a journey where curiosity thrives and your digital footprint transforms the future.
What do you do?
- Explore Wicked Problems and Sustainability Goals:
Understand complex challenges and sustainability objectives, aligning with the curriculum’s emphasis on critical analysis and global awareness.
- Analyse Digital Footprints and Online Presence:
Investigate personal digital footprints and online interactions, fostering media literacy and responsible digital citizenship.
- Examine Online Systems and Diverse Technologies:
Delve into various online systems and technologies in line with the curriculum’s focus on exploring digital systems and information representation.
- Understand Digital Technology Functionality and Solution Design:
Gain insight into how digital technologies operate and learn to design practical digital solutions, connecting with the curriculum’s core concepts.
- Prototype Design and User-Centric Evaluation:
Develop prototypes and evaluate user-friendly solutions, aligning with design thinking principles and practical problem-solving.
- Apply Data Analytics for Data Collection and Communication:
Utilise data analytics to collect, analyse, and effectively communicate data, addressing the curriculum’s data literacy component.
- Harness Computational Thinking for Real-World Problem Solving:
Apply computational thinking to solve real-world issues through problem-solving, algorithm design, and programming in line with curriculum goals.
What skills do you develop?
21st Century Skills:
- foster critical thinking and innovative problem-solving
- cultivate collaboration skills with a focus on design thinking
- apply computational reasoning to troubleshoot complex issues
- create software using block-based and GPL programming languages
- navigate data analysis and informatics for informed decision-making.
Digital Literacy and Confidence:
- manipulate and interpret data and information effectively
- comprehend media messages and create impactful infographics
- master digital technologies, spanning software and hardware realms
- embrace the ever-evolving landscape of digital technology creation
- Cultivate forward-thinking abilities for the future of technology.
Requirements
This course requires internet access to complete and submit work each week with programming tutorials completed using third-party websites.
Whilst the course will include some weekly readings from websites such as the eSafety Commissioner, there are no required texts.
Things you can do now
Go to the VCAA website for more information about this subject.