Year 7/8 Digital Technologies

Welcome to Year 7/8 Digital Technologies

This site will guide you through your learning for Year 7 and Year 8.

New Zealand Curriculum Level 4

Technological Practice (L4)

Brief Development

Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity. Describe the key attributes identified in stakeholder feedback, which will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.

Planning for Practice

Undertake planning that includes reviewing the effectiveness of past actions and resourcing, exploring implications for future actions and accessing of resources, and consideration of stakeholder feedback, to enable the development of an outcome.

Outcome Development & Evaluation

Investigate a context to develop ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake functional modelling that takes account of stakeholder feedback, in order to select and develop the outcome that best addresses the key attributes. Incorporating stakeholder feedback, evaluate the outcome’s fitness for purpose in terms of how well it addresses the need or opportunity.

Nature of Technology (L4)

Characteristics of Technology

Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Characteristics of Technological Outcomes

Understand that technological outcomes can be interpreted in terms of how they might be used and by whom and that each has a proper function as well as possible alternative functions.

Technoloigcal Knowledge (L4)

Technological Modelling

Understand how different forms of functional modelling are used to explore possibilities and to justify decision making and how prototyping can be used to justify refinement of technological outcomes.

Technological Products

Understand that materials can be formed, manipulated, and/or transformed to enhance the fitness for purpose of a technological product.

Technological Systems

Understand how technological systems employ control to allow for the transformation of inputs to outputs.

Computational thinking for digital technologies (PO3)

Progress Outcome 3

In authentic contexts and taking account of end-users, students decompose problems into step-by-step instructions to create algorithms for computer programs. They use logical thinking to predict the behaviour of the programs, and they understand that there can be more than one algorithm for the same problem. They develop and debug simple programs that use inputs, outputs, sequence and iteration (repeating part of the algorithm with a loop). They understand that digital devices store data using just two states represented by binary digits (bits).

Designing and developing digital outcomes (PO2)

Progress Outcome 2

In authentic contexts and taking account of end-users, students make decisions about creating, manipulating, storing, retrieving, sharing and testing digital content for a specific purpose, given particular parameters, tools, and techniques. They understand that digital devices impact on humans and society and that both the devices and their impact change over time.

Students identify the specific role of components in a simple input-process-output system and how they work together, and they recognise the “control role” that humans have in the system. They can select from an increasing range of applications and file types to develop outcomes for particular purposes.

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