Foundation
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Foundation Achievement Standard (From VCAA F-10 Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence website
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- Students start at Level D and advance up to Level A
- Each level focuses on:
- Digital Systems.
- Data and Information.
- Creating Solutions.
- Within each Level we have offered:
- Teacher directed learning ideas and content.
- Student Assisted Learning ideas and content.
- Independent student learning content.
- Audio support is provided for Assisted and Independent learners.
Identified achievement outcomes selected from the VCAA Scope & Sequence
DigitalNinja Modules
Level D:
Digital Systems
- Carry out some key functions on digital systems (hardware and software components) to meet a purpose.
Data and Information
- Collect, sort, and recognise, with assistance, different types of patterns in data, and use digital systems to represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Follow and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
Level D:
Digital Systems
- The Internet. The world's biggest digital system
Data and Information
- What is the Internet?
- Awareness of Browsers.
- Kiddle.co safe search
Creating Digital Solutions
- Problem solving with computers
- Robot building fun.
Level C:
Digital Systems
- Initiate some basic functions on common digital systems (hardware and software components) to meet a purpose.
Data and Information
- Collect, sort and recognise simple patterns in data, and assist with the use of digital systems to represent data as pictures and symbols.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Follow, and with assistance, represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems.
Level C:
Digital Systems
- Brief history of computing and word processing
Data and Information
- Importance of posture when using computers
- Basic typing awareness.
- Classifying and sorting data
Creating Digital Solutions
- Problem solving skills and approach.
Level B:
Digital Systems
- Explore the purpose and use of some common digital systems (hardware and software components).
Data and Information
- Collect and sort familiar data, and with assistance use digital systems to represent the findings as images.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Follow a sequence of steps and decisions needed to solve simple problems.
Level B:
Digital Systems
- Important computer words (vocabulary).
- Explore the purpose and use of some common digital systems (hardware and software components)
- Use of iPad to take a photo
- Add audio recording to a photo using Fotobabble App.
- Become aware of the online sharing options.
Data and Information
- Awareness of binary data.
- Types of data.
- Different ways to represent data.
- Simple survey.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Following and writing simple step by step instructions.
Level A:
Digital Systems
- React to the use of some common digital systems, (hardware and software components), as they experience their purpose.
Data and Information
- React to patterns and different types of data and experience how data is sorted and represented as images using digital systems.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Experience steps involved in completing a routine task.
Level A:
Digital Systems
- Students will have had opportunities to experience and react to a range of digital solutions through explorative learning and guided play and integrated learning.
- Awareness of good posture when using digital devices
- Mouse control or touch screen control through jigsaw play
- Control a simple online game
- Use and become aware of the basic operational functions of an iPad
Data and Information
- Students experience different types of data such as sound
- Create sound data
- Create sound data matched to a visual pattern using the Singing Fingers App
Creating Digital Solutions
- Students experience the concept of abstraction to identify significant steps involved in everyday routine activities
- Define and sequence a routine task
- Become aware of the meaning and importance of the word 'algorithm' in the context of digital systems
- Modify a routine task or sequence to solve a simple problem