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Digital Technologies - Junior

Year 7 - Digital Technologies (compulsory)

Overview

In Digital Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of analysing problems and opportunities, designing, developing, and evaluating digital solutions, and creating and sharing information that meets a range of current and future needs. Students learn to safely and ethically exploit the capacity of information systems to create digital solutions. These solutions and information are created through the application of computational, design and systems thinking, and technical skills.

Units / Topics	Types of Assessment
Networking	Data collection and analysis
Programming with Micro:bits	Visual representation of data
Online safety	Networks
	Coding
	Computer hardware and digital information

Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to Digital Technologies in Year 8 or 9 or to apply for the STEM Academy.

Year 8 and 9 - Digital Technologies: Creative Digital Solutions

Overview

Students explore the interrelated processes and associated skills by which they can create digital solutions.
Students engage in the four processes of analysing, designing, developing, and evaluating. The second part of the course allows students to explore the features of web apps and how data may be either exposed, changed, or corrupted by hackers. Students will explore vulnerabilities in web apps.

This subject can be studied at Year 8 and Year 9.

Units / Topics	Types of Assessment
Cyber Security	Adobe Photoshop – folio of image
Creating Digital Solutions	manipulations tasks
	Data Representation and Compression-
	Written report on network case study identifying transmission media
	App Design

Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to future Year 10 Digital Technology options.

Year 9 - Digital Technologies: Digital Systems and Networks

Overview

Computational thinking, a problem-solving methodology lies at the heart of this course and the Digital Technologies curriculum. Students develop real world computer science-based skills. Activities may include a module-based course coding, in HTML/CSS, and a project which involves collecting and analysing data to produce information and developing a website based on a relevant topic. Students apply computational thinking as a problem-solving methodology during these activities in their classes.

Units / Topics	Types of Assessment
Programming	Research Project – data collection, security, and presentation of findings
Algorithms	Programming Folio – a sequence of activities designed to extend students logic and programming skills in HTML/CSS
Networks

Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to Year 10 Digital Technology options.

Year 9 - Digital Technologies: Robotics

Overview

The VEX Robotics Course provides students with exciting, open-ended robotics and research project challenges that enhance their Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) skills through hands-on, student-centred learning. There is a large emphasis in this elective on collaboration and problem solving, rather than oppositional competition. Students will design, build and program robots in collaborative teams in order to complete a series of engineering or systems-based challenges. Students will learn to program a range of functions using a progression from block-based programming through to Python.

Units / Topics	Types of Assessment
Programming in a virtual environment	Programming and constructing for movement
Use and programming of sensors	Programming and constructing for sensing
Computer programming for axis of motion	Programming and constructing for materials handling
The programming solutions to tasks arising from the Gameplay element based on the Vex IQ Challenge	Solutions to the Vex IQ 2025 Design challenge

Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to Year 10 Digital Technology options.