NCEA Level 1 Digital Technologies

Welcome to NCEA Level 1 Digital Technologies

This site will guide you through your learning for NCEA Level 1.

New Zealand Curriculum Level 6

Technological Practice (L6)

Brief Development

Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.

Planning for Practice

Critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools. Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.

Outcome Development & Evaluation

Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders.

Nature of Technology (L6)

Characteristics of Technology

Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities through collaborative practice.

Characteristics of Technological Outcomes

Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system. Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people’s views of themselves and possible futures.

Technoloigcal Knowledge (L6)

Technological Modelling

Understand the role and nature of evidence and reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.

Technological Products

Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their properties, and understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product development.

Technological Systems

Understand the implications of subsystems for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Computational thinking for digital technologies (PO6)

Progress Outcome 6

In authentic contexts and taking account of endusers, students determine and compare the “cost” (computational complexity) of two iterative algorithms for the same problem size. They understand the concept of compression coding for different media types, its typical uses, and how it enables widely used technologies to function.

Students use an iterative process to design, develop, document and test basic computer programs. They apply design principles and usability heuristics to their own designs and evaluate user interfaces in terms of them.

Designing and developing digital outcomes (PO4)

Progress Outcome 4

In authentic contexts, students investigate and consider possible solutions for a given context or issue. With support, they use an iterative process to design, develop, store and test digital outcomes, identifying and evaluating relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations. They use information from testing and apply appropriate tools, techniques, procedures and protocols to improve the quality of the outcomes and to ensure they are fit-for-purpose and meet end-user requirements.

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