Core Subject
TECHNOLOGY & ENTERPRISE
The Technology and Enterprise Curriculum comprises two areas of learning in Year 7 and 8:
Design Technologies and Digital Technologies. Students will study both learning areas over
a semester, comprising one Digital Technologies course and one Design Technologies
course. Within Digital Technologies, students will study one of three Design Technologies
courses offered.
In Year 9, students can opt to study one or more Technology course as part of their Discovery
learning program. Course outlines for each Technologies course can be found in the Discovery
learning section of this handbook.
Digital technologies
In this Technologies learning area students will be provided with practical opportunities to use
design thinking and to be innovative developers of digital solutions and knowledge. The Year
7 and 8 curriculum builds on what students have covered in previous years and focuses on
the ever-increasing need to understand how digital technology works and enables students to
become effective users of digital systems including hardware and software.
Year 7
Let’s Go Digital!
Students will be exposed to a wide range of digital information and digital systems designed
to meet criteria for specific purposes and/or audiences.
Key topics covered:
Digital skills in business technology
Collecting and analysing relevant data to develop reports on findings
Digital solutions that exhibit creative and enterprising use of ICT
Programming concepts including sequence, selection and iteration
How networks and hardware components work together
Programming concepts including sequence, selection and iteration
Year 8
Let’s go Mobile!
Our students live in a connected world and as digital connections continue to grow there is a
greater need to understand how networks operate. In this course student will explore mobile
communications; how they are built, operated and maintained. They will also have the
opportunity to design and create their own software application.
Key topics covered:
Understanding how mobile devices and networks work
Building computational thinking skills to develop basic algorithms
Undertaking a primary research task through the collection of relevant data
Using software applications to analyse and display data
Understanding current networking hardware and protocols
Enhancing programming skills through the design and development of an app suitable
for use on a mobile device.
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