Digital Technology Level 3
Course Description
Teacher in Charge:
This year students will be creating a Digital Outcome of their choosing to fulfil a Need or Opportunity. Students will be required to conduct an Inquiry for a Proposal and apply user experience methodologies to Design the outcome. They will then proceed to use Complex processes to Develop the outcome.
Throughout the year, you will be gathering evidence of the knowledge and skills you are developing. Your evidence will be checked throughout the year for both formative checkpoint marking and summative internal assessment marking. Therefore, it is important that you start from the beginning of the year keeping good notes including your proposal and development ideas, research, brainstorms, sketches, doodles, storyboards, your decision process, the skills learned (including screenshots of your process) the analysis of how or why you use certain tools/techniques when creating your outcome.
The external assessment for the course will be an external exam that is a summary of your learning during the project at the end of Term 3.
Recommended Prior Learning
This course is designed for students who are interested in Computer Science as a possible career pathway. Students need to have achieved a minimum of 14 credits in Level 2 Digital and have gained an achieved in AS91897 (Use advanced processes to develop a digital technologies outcome).
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Generic Technology 3.2 - Undertake project management to support technological practice
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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 3.9 - Analyse an area of computer science
Pathway Possibilities
User Experience Designer, Test Analyst, Network Administrator, Geospatial Specialist, Security Analyst, Penetration Tester, Security Consultant, Data Analyst, Scrum Master, Clinical Coder, Information Technology Manager, Systems Administrator, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Information Technology Architect, Electronics Engineer, Game Developer, Biomedical Engineer,