IT knowledge and skills covered in this module
- ICT in the workplace
- Advantages and disadvantages of computer use
- Privacy and emotional safety with ICT
- Being cybersmart to stay safe
- Intellectual property and piracy
- Computer crime
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum
ICT Capability elements covered
- Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
- recognise intellectual property
- apply digital information security practices
- apply personal security protocols
- identify the impacts of ICT in society
- Investigating with ICT
- define and plan information searches
- Creating with ICT
- Communicating with ICT
- collaborate, share and exchange
- understand computer mediated communications
- Managing and operating ICT
Other general capabilities covered
- Personal and social capability
- Ethical understanding
- Intercultural understanding
Digital Technologies curriculum content in this module
Knowledge and understanding
- Digital systems – Investigate the role of hardware and software in managing, controlling and securing the movement of and access to data in networked digital systems (ACTDIK034)
Processes and production skills
- Develop techniques for acquiring, storing and validating quantitative and qualitative data from a range of sources, considering privacy and security requirements (ACTDIP036)
- Define and decompose real-world problems precisely, taking into account functional and non-functional requirements and including interviewing stakeholders to identify needs (ACTDIP038)
- Evaluate critically how student solutions and existing information systems and policies take account of future risks and sustainability and provide opportunities for innovation and enterprise (ACTDIP042)
- Create interactive solutions for sharing ideas and information online, taking into account safety, social contexts and legal responsibilities (ACTDIP043)
- Plan and manage projects using an iterative and collaborative approach, identifying risks and considering safety and sustainability (ACTDIP044)
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