Length: Full Year

Recommended background: It is strongly recommended that students have successfully completed SACE Stage 1 Digital Technologies

Content:

In Digital Technologies, students create practical, innovative solutions to problems of interest. By extracting, interpreting, and modelling real-world data sets, students identify trends to examine sustainable solutions to problems in, for example, business, industry, the environment and the community. They investigate how potential solutions are influenced by current and projected social, economic, environmental, scientific, and ethical considerations, including relevance, originality, appropriateness, and sustainability.

This course consists of four focus areas:

1. Computational thinking – Students develop and extend their computational thinking skills and strategies to identify, deconstruct, and solve problems of interest; these strategies include pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm design
2. Design and programming – Students analyse a problem, and design, write the code for, test, and implement a solution
3. Data analytics – Students analyse data sets in order to understand a problem, test a hypothesis, and draw conclusions from which to make decisions
4. Iterative project development – Students scope problems, plan a project, clarify project features, and develop and evaluate appropriate code

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.

• School-based Assessment (70%): Assessment Type 1: Project Skills (50%), Assessment Type 2: Collaborative Project (20%)
• External Assessment (30%): Assessment Type 3: Individual Digital Solution