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Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies

 

Digital Technologies

The Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies (F–10) comprises two related strands:

Digital Technologies knowledge and understanding

  • the information system components of data, and digital systems (hardware, software and networks)

Digital Technologies processes and production skills

  • using digital systems to create ideas and information, and to define, design and implement digital solutions, and evaluate these solutions and existing information systems against specified criteria.

 

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Sequence of content

View the content descriptions for each year band and gain a sense of the progression of understandings, skills and knowledge across year bands.

A screenshot of the first page of the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies Sequence of Content descriptions PDF. The text is too small to read.

Structure of AC:DT

Digital Technologies: An Introduction is a 5-minute video outlining the rationale, structure and broad context for implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies.

Screenshot of Digital Technologies: An Introduction video. The screenshot has the title: Australian Curriculum Technologies F-10

Overview of AC:DT

This video Digital Technologies – what are they for? provides a useful overview of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies developed by the South Australian Teaching and Learning Department.

Screenshot of Digital Technologies: What are they for? video. The screenshot has the title: Digital Technologies, what are they for?

Online safety curriculum connection

The purpose of this curriculum connection is twofold. It is designed to:

  • guide teachers to identify content in the Australian Curriculum that supports the teaching and learning of online safety
  • connect teachers to a range of interdisciplinary resources that have been developed to support the teaching and learning of online safety.

Online safety is a broad concept that concerns minimising risks online from a range of negative influences including inappropriate social behaviours, abuse, harmful content, inappropriate contact, identity theft and breaches of privacy.

Review the Online safety curriculum connection.

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