This topic is designed to develop students' pedagogical content knowledge and confidence to teach and assess the digital technologies curriculum across the primary years. Emphasis is placed on empowering students to design opportunities for children to become innovative creators of digital solutions, effective users of digital systems and critical consumers of information conveyed by digital systems. Students will design learning challenges which foster children's curiosity, confidence, persistence, innovation, creativity, respect and cooperation. The topic explores the underpinning content knowledge associated with the components of digital systems (hardware, software and networks) and how data are represented and structured symbolically for use by digital systems. The processes and production skills required to create digital solutions to problems and opportunities are also examined which include the skills in using digital systems; critical and creative thinking including systems, design and computational thinking.
This topic aims to:
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