Level 3 Digital Technologies
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs K. Gray, Mr D. Hullen.
Level 3 Digital Technologies
Digital Technologies are transforming how we live; shaping our homes and workplaces, changing the way that we interact with each other and live our everyday lives. Incorporating digital technologies into teaching and learning programmes will support young people to develop the confidence and skill not only to use digital technologies (DT) but to design and build digital systems.
Prerequisite:
Level 2 Digital Technologies
Topics Covered
Students spend the first weeks completing an inquiry to find and propose an authentic project that they can undertake on behalf of a client, such as a staff member at school. The scope and feasibility of this project is decided in consultation with the teacher.
Students then have most of the rest of the school year to incrementally design and develop the outcome to their client's specifications. All students learn skills common across all projects and take them to a minimum standard, but some learning is on an as-needed basis. The teacher closely guides and monitors progress and learning requirements through regular check-ins with each student.
The external assessment is a report written in class time in Term 4. Students reflect on developing their outcome from inception in the inquiry, through design and development iterations, and eventual delivery to the client.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.1 - Conduct a critical inquiry to propose a digital technologies outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.2 - Apply user experience methodologies to develop a design for a digital technologies outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.8 - Use complex processes to develop a digital technologies outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.10 - Present a reflective analysis of developing a digital outcome
Pathway Possibilities
Animator/Digital Artist, Accounts Officer, Office Administrator, Copywriter, Air Force Aviator, Product Assembler, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Building Surveyor, Architect, Architectural Technician, Archivist, Film and Video Editor, Medical Physicist, Sound Technician, Tailor/Dressmaker, Biomedical Engineer, Biomedical Technician, Naval Architect,