COURSE CONTENT STATEMENT:

TITLE: Digital Technologies Generic

LEVEL: 13

INTRODUCTION:

This course is designed to create a pathway for students to opt into an outcome based course where they will work on an agreed individual project that they have negotiated with the Head of Department.

TERM DATES FOR THE YEAR:

Term 1: 29 January – 19 April

Term 2: 6 May – 12 July

Term 3: 29 July – 27 September

Term 4: 14 October – 12 December

External examinations: November – December 2013

STANDARDS TO BE DELIVERED:

Students will choose from a Range of Standards to build their own program.

The pathways are:

  1. Scholarship, (As an option in Year 12/13)
  2. Possibly Scholarship, (As an option in Year 12/13)
  3. Endorsed,
  4. Possibly Endorsed,
  5. Skills

Students will identify their best pathway and then negotiate with the teacher the most appropriate Standards to complete.

AS91608 3.1
Undertake brief development to address an issue within a determined context
4 credits Internal / AS91609 3.2
Undertake project management to support technological practice
4 credits Internal / AS91610 3.3
Develop a conceptual design considering fitness for purpose in the broadest sense
6 credits Internal / AS91611 3.4
Develop a prototype considering fitness for purpose in the broadest sense
6 credits Internal
AS91612 3.5
Demonstrate understanding of how technological modelling supports technological development and implementation
4 credits External / AS91614 .3.7
Demonstrate understanding of operational parameters in complex and highly complex technological systems
4 credits External / AS91617 3.10
Undertake a critique of a technological outcome’s design
4 credits External

REASSESSMENT POLICY for INTERNAL ASSESSMENT:

NO standard/s will be reassessed before the following year:

Resubmission:

A resubmission opportunity may be offered where your teacher judges that a mistake has been made, which you should be capable of discovering and correcting yourself.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY TO NEXT LEVEL:

Successful completion of the previous year

CAREERS RELATED TO THIS COURSE:

Project management and a Career in Digital Technologies or any Project Management option

SUBJECT SPECIFIC INFORMATION:

Projects can be at any level (1 - 3) and will prepare students for Scholarship at level 3. Students will have already demonstrated a high level of understanding in an area they wish to further extend. Places are limited

This course will encourage students to plan, prepare, design and develop an outcome that they have decided on. Projects would likely be from the following disciplines (technologies, digital technologies, science and electronics).

This course encourages students to negotiate their own path of study and requires high levels of time management and organisational skills. Students are expected to work both individually and in groups as well as participating in extension activities and outside the classroom learning opportunities.

This course would prepare student understanding for Scholarship at Level 3, and all students would be expected to attempt Scholarship in Level 3.