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• VCDTDI002

  React to patterns and different types of data and experience how data is sorted and represented as images using digital systems

  Elaborations

  • experiencing how their movements can create sounds and visual effects
  • using numeric data and displaying them as images, for example selecting and displaying photos of classmates who are present at school on a given day
  • experiencing the use of visual data, for example searching through a school-based digital photo library to select an image of themselves and significant people in their life
  • experiencing different types of data processing by digital systems, for example images, sound, text and numbers

  VCDTDI002 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Data and Information

• VCDTDS001

  React to the use of some common digital systems, (hardware and software components), as they experience their purpose

  Elaborations

  • experiencing digital systems used within everyday life and school programs, for example phones, printers, cameras, multimedia presentations, tablets, games
  • using voice and body movements to make sounds in a microphone
  • experiencing cause and effect devices, for example touch keys on a banana keyboard
  • experiencing and playing with switches, for example a jelly bean switch
  • experiencing changes in a program due to the activation/deactivation of a switch by another, coactively or through individual exploration

  VCDTDS001 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level A | Digital Systems

• VCDTCD054

  Evaluate critically how well student-developed solutions and existing information systems and policies take account of future risks and sustainability and provide opportunities for innovation

  Elaborations

  • investigating actions, devices and events that are potential risks to information systems, for example losing portable storage devices containing important files, deliberately infecting systems through malware, and power surges
  • investigating techniques used by people and organisations to shape how information systems are used, for example refusing to use innovations, using social media to advocate behaviours, purchasing devices, withdrawing previous processes that can now only be performed by an information system
  • investigating the impact and opportunities created through the practice of planned obsolescence, for example discussing the benefits and risks to users, the creators and the environment of information systems having a defined life span, taking into account costs, research and resource extraction
  • examining the ICT policy for schooling and evaluating the impact on education
  • reviewing the ‘terms of use’ policies on social media networks and predicting ways in which these can support advocacy of change and protection of individuals and societies
  • reviewing state, national and regional policies and analysing the potential impact of each. Examples of policies include: Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework, the Australian Government ICT Sustainability Plan 2010–2015; the Green Growth Policy in Korea and the Korean National Strategy for Sustainable Development

  VCDTCD054 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 9 and 10 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTCD018

  Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs

  Elaborations

  • sharing and describing ways that common information systems can be used to meet communication needs, for example computers can be used as phones and social networking tools allowing communication between families living in different regions
  • recognising and discussing the need for cyber-safety when using online information systems, for example recognising that shared personal information can be used for undesirable purposes and that using a password is a means of protecting identity
  • recognising safe ergonomic practices when children are playing with information systems, for example recognising the need to take regular breaks to avoid eye strain and repetitive strain injuries
  • discussing how a range of information systems support personal needs and impact on others, for example text to speech software can be used to meet the communications needs of people with vision loss
  • sharing ideas about the ways information systems are being used by families and friends in everyday life, for example comparing current digital play equipment with play equipment of 20 years ago

  VCDTCD018 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Digital Solutions

• VCDTDS013

  Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose

  Elaborations

  • playing with and using different digital systems for transferring and capturing data, for example using a tablet to take a photograph of a grandparent and recording an interview with them about life in the past
  • exploring and using digital systems for downloading and storing information, for example knowing how to download images from a website and insert them into a document
  • exploring and identifying hardware and software components of digital systems when creating ideas and information, for example experimenting with different ways of providing instructions to games software using a mouse, touch pad, touch screen, keyboard, stylus
  • recognising and using hardware and software components of digital systems and experimenting with their functions, for example playing with interactive toys and robotic devices to determine which ones can work with other devices
  • recognising that a digital system follows instructions or commands, for example instructing robotic toys to perform a function such as a dance movement
  • constructing a model of a real or imaginary digital systems device for use in role-play scenarios and explaining the features of the device to an adult

  VCDTDS013 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Digital Systems