In authentic contexts and taking account of end users students will design and develop digital outcomes using a range of tools, techniques, approaches and applications.
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| students participate in teacher-led activities to develop, manipulate, store, retrieve and share digital content in order to meet technological challenges. | students make decisions about creating, manipulating, storing, retrieving, sharing and testing digital content for a specific purpose, given particular parameters, tools, and techniques | to design, develop, store, test and evaluate digital content to address given contexts or issues | In authentic contexts, students investigate and consider possible solutions for a given context or issue | with support, students investigate a specialised digital technologies area (for example, digital media, digital information, electronic environments, user experience design, digital systems) and propose possible solutions to issues they identify | students independently investigate a specialised digital technologies area and propose possible solutions to issues they identify |
| follow a defined process to design, develop, store, test and evaluate digital content to address given contexts or issues | With support, they use an iterative process to design, develop, store and test digital outcomes | They independently apply an iterative process to design, develop, store and test digital outcomes that enable their solutions, | They work independently or within collaborative, cross-functional teams to apply an iterative development process to plan, design, develop, test and create quality, fit-for-purpose digital outcomes | ||
| they identify digital devices and their purposes and understand that humans make them. | They understand that digital devices impact on humans and society and that both the devices and their impact change over time. | taking into account immediate social, ethical and end-user considerations for an outcome | They are identifying and evaluating relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations for an outcome | identifying, evaluating, prioritising and responding to relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations for an outcome | create quality, fit-for-purpose digital outcomes that enable their solutions, synthesising relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations as they develop digital content. |
| They use information from testing and apply appropriate tools, techniques, procedures and protocols to improve the quality of the outcomes and to ensure they are fit-for-purpose and meet end-user requirements. | They use information from testing and, with increasing confidence, optimise tools, techniques, procedures and protocols to improve the quality of the outcomes. | ||||
| They apply evaluative processes to ensure the outcomes are fit-for-purpose and meet end-user requirements | |||||
| Students integrate in the outcomes they develop specialised knowledge of digital applications and systems from a range of areas, including: network architecture; complex electronics environments and embedded systems; interrelated computing devices, hardware and applications; digital information systems; user experience design; complex management of digital information; and creative digital media. | |||||
| they can identify the inputs and outputs of a system, and they understand that digital devices store content, which can be retrieved later. | Students identify the specific role of components in a simple input-process-output system and how they work together, and they recognise the “control role” that humans have in the system. | They identify the key features of selected software and choose the most appropriate software and file types to develop and combine digital content. | |||
| They know how to use some applications | They can select from an increasing range of applications and file types to develop outcomes for particular purposes. | ||||
| Students understand the role of operating systems in managing digital devices, security, and application software | |||||
| and are able to apply file management conventions using a range of storage devices. | |||||
| They understand that with storing data comes responsibility for ensuring security and privacy. |