9DT

Year 9 Digital Technologies

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs C. Sunnex.

Digital Technologies helps prepare you for your future - developing the skills, knowledge and ability to adapt yourself to an ever-changing global environment. 

Students choosing a digital technologies pathway will develop the more specialised skills that industry say are in high demand.  Students become the creator rather than a user of our digital world.  The curriculum covers two key areas, computational thinking and designing and developing digital outcomes.


The theme for this course is digital outcomes made by and for people within a cultural society


Course Overview

Semester A
Designing and developing digital outcomes is where you can create quality, fit-for-purpose digital outcomes to meet the requirements of an end user. These include; print media, e-marketing documents, movies and sound and much more.
Image manipulation is when images are enhanced, manipulated, altered or modified in a way that's pleasing to our eyes or to obtain a certain effect for certain reasons/goal objective we have in mind. Basically, it is anything that changes an image from its original state. You can do some cool things!
Computational Thinking involves two key areas:
Computer Science is the study of computers and computer concepts: their systems, design, development and use (https://www.csfieldguide.org.nz/en/).
In this course you learn the basic concepts that will be a foundation for your understanding of computer science.
Computer programming is a way of giving computers instructions about what they should do next. These instructions are known as code, and computer programmers write code to solve problems or perform a task.

Semester B
Designing and developing digital outcomes is where you can create quality, fit-for-purpose digital outcomes to meet the requirements of an end user. These include; print media, e-marketing documents, movies and sound and much more.
Image manipulation is when images are enhanced, manipulated, altered or modified in a way that's pleasing to our eyes or to obtain a certain effect for certain reasons/goal objective we have in mind. Basically, it is anything that changes an image from its original state. You can do some cool things!
Computational Thinking involves two key areas:
Computer Science is the study of computers and computer concepts: their systems, design, development and use (https://www.csfieldguide.org.nz/en/).
In this course you learn the basic concepts that will be a foundation for your understanding of computer science.
Computer programming is a way of giving computers instructions about what they should do next. These instructions are known as code, and computer programmers write code to solve problems or perform a task.

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

USB flash drive

Pathway

Studying digital technologies leads to a wide range of career options;
Creative content design, web site developers, animators, radio imaging, print designers, Business data analysts design and develop hardware products or software applications or provide a range of technical services.

Disclaimer

POLICY
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Credits listed may change.