NCEA Level 3 Digital Technologies

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New Zealand Curriculum Level 8

Technological Practice (L8)

Brief Development

Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the context and the issue to be resolved. 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 and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the efficient development of an outcome to completion.

Outcome Development & Evaluation

Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and fitness-for-purpose determinations in order to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, trialling in the physical and social environments, and an understanding of the issue as it relates to the wider context. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation, using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue that takes account of all contextual dimensions.

Nature of Technology (L8)

Characteristics of Technology

Understand the implications of technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown, intended and unintended.

Characteristics of Technological Outcomes

Understand how technological outcomes can be interpreted and justified as fit for purpose in their historical, cultural, social, and geographical location.

Technoloigcal Knowledge (L8)

Technological Modelling

Understand the role of technological modelling as a key part of technological development, justifying its importance on moral, ethical, sustainable, cultural, political, economic, and historical grounds.

Technological Products

Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.

Technological Systems

Understand operational parameters and their role in the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Computational thinking for digital technologies (PO8)

Progress Outcome 8

In authentic contexts and taking account of end-users, students evaluate concepts in digital technologies (e.g., formal languages, network communication protocols, artificial intelligence, graphics and visual computing, big data, social algorithms) in relation to how key mechanisms underpin them and how they are applied in different scenarios when developing real world applications.

Students understand accepted software engineering methodologies and user experience design processes and apply their key concepts to design, develop, document and test complex computer programs.

Designing and developing digital outcomes (PO6)

Progress Outcome 6

In authentic contexts, students independently investigate a specialised digital technologies area and propose possible solutions to issues they identify. They work independently or within collaborative, cross-functional teams to apply an iterative development process to plan, design, develop, test and create quality, fit-for-purpose digital outcomes that enable their solutions, synthesising relevant social, ethical and end-user considerations as they develop digital content.

Students integrate in the outcomes they develop specialised knowledge of digital applications and systems from a range of areas, including: network architecture; complex electronics environments and embedded systems; interrelated computing devices, hardware and applications; digital information systems; user experience design; complex management of digital information; and creative digital media.

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