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Unit of Study DSGN1010 - Digital Technologies: Principles and Processes (2024)

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Introduces students to the Digital Technologies content located within the Technologies Learning Area for both Primary and Secondary teachers.  The unit incorporates project-based and problem-based learning approaches to enable students to become familiar with Digital Technologies concepts, and content specified in the Australian and State Curriculum.  Students will cover the various principles and processes from a foundational level through to the development of digital solutions for authentic problems.

Unit content

Module 1 Digital Technologies systems and impacts  
 
Module 2 Collection, analysis and representations of data 
 
Module 3 Needs analysis, the real-world and the user experience  
 
Module 4 Digital solution production- visual coding 
 
Module 5 Digital solution production - general-purpose language 
 
Module 6 Digital solution implementation, testing and evaluation 

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Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term4
Term4
Gold Coast
Term4
Term4
Lismore
Term4
Term4
Online
Term4,5
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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

interpret, sort and visualise data to define and decompose real-world problems considering functional requirements and economic, environmental, social, technical and usability constraints

design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating alternative designs and how they meet needs, are innovative, and take account of future risks and sustainability

design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors

plan and manage projects that implement and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions in a general-purpose programming language

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