AC9TDI8P08
Official content description
generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs
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What Year 7 Technologies students should achieve
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- For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities.
- By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures.
- They design and trace algorithms and implement them in a general-purpose programming language.
- Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats.
- Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.
- They select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to create, locate and share content; and to plan, collaborate on and manage projects.
The Processes and production skills progression either side of AC9TDI8P08
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Taught before · Years 5–6
Builds towards · Years 9–10
- AC9TDI10P01develop techniques to acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
- AC9TDI10P02analyse and visualise data interactively using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends and outliers
- AC9TDI10P03model and query entities and their relationships using structured data
Other Year 7 Processes and production skills codes
- AC9TDI8P01acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
- AC9TDI8P02analyse and visualise data using a range of software, including spreadsheets and databases, to draw conclusions and make predictions by identifying trends
- AC9TDI8P03model and query the attributes of objects and events using structured data
- AC9TDI8P04define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
- AC9TDI8P05design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
- AC9TDI8P06trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors
- AC9TDI8P07design the user experience of a digital system
- AC9TDI8P09implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
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