Digital Technologies / Levels 7 and 8 / Data and Information
Content description
Acquire data from a range of sources and evaluate their authenticity, accuracy and timeliness
Elaborations
designing a search engine query to find specific information on the web and checking its accuracy against information contained in other sources, for example entering instructions such as intitle: and inurl: prefixes to find information within a general directory, and comparing the results with information found in a wiki
acquiring data from a range of sources, for example people, websites, books, mobile phones, radiofrequency identification (RFID) and data repositories such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics datasets, and compiling these data into a digital format
checking authenticity of data, for example ensuring the source or author is a reliable individual or organisation
using techniques to locate data that are timely, for example using a filtering function to specify the timeframe, such as years, for the required data
The VCAA has recently published the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0. To view the revised curriculum, familiarisation resources and support material, go to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website.
