Planning

The line of sight documents provide the curriculum on a page. They give a line of sight from content descriptions to achievement standards. They are useful for planning and mapping activities such as making connections between content descriptions and achievement standards.

Digital Technologies                                                         Design and Technologies

Foundation                                                                Foundation

Years 1 and 2                                                            Years 1 and 2

Years 3 and 4                                                             Years 3 and 4

Years 5 and 6                                                             Years 5 and 6

Years 7 and 8                                                             Years 7 and 8

Years 9 and 10                                                           Years 9 and 10

The following matrices are designed for teachers to self-assess their Digital Literacy and Digital Technologies proficiency. They include a notes section for teachers to plan future professional learning.

          Digital Literacy Teacher self-assessment matrix              Digital Technologies Teacher self-assessment matrix

These resources illustrate how the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions can be used with Digital Technologies to support student progress in literacy and numeracy. This advice:

• identifies the sub-elements of the progressions that are most relevant to studying Digital Technologies
• identifies some aspects of an achievement standard, which include literacy or numeracy demands
• lists some relevant indicators at one or more levels of the progressions to illustrate how the progressions might be unpacked to support student progress in literacy and numeracy in the study of Digital Technologies.

National Literacy learning progression and Digital Technologies Year 8	National Numeracy learning progression and Digital Technologies Year 8

Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies sample assessment tasks

These sample assessment tasks assist teachers with the implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies, with a focus on Data. Each assessment task has a particular data focus. A template is provided so teachers can populate it with their own data sets. Teachers are free to use and modify as needed.

Years 1 and 2 assessment task: Stepping out

The Years 1 and 2 assessment task focuses on Digital Technologies and Mathematics (measurement).

  Teacher booklet                               Student task

Years 3–4 assessment task: Classifying living and non-living things

The Years 3–4 assessment task focuses on Digital Technologies and Science (living or non-living things).

  Teacher booklet                              Student task

Years 5–6 assessment task: Representing data

The Years 5–6 assessment task focuses on Digital Technologies and Mathematics and/or Science.

  Teacher booklet                           Teacher PowerPoint                                                        Student PowerPoint

Years 7–8 assessment task: Evaluating the livability of a city/town

The Years 7–8 assessment task focuses on Digital Technologies and HASS (Geography).

   Teacher booklet

Foundation assessment task: Cooling the school

  Teacher booklet                           Teacher PowerPoint                                                        Student files

Years 1–2 assessment task: Cooling the school

The Digital systems assessment task provides a scaffold to teach about and assess your students’ understanding of how digital systems can be used to collect data about the school environment. Students are guided to use digital systems such as photo apps on digital devices and online maps to locate plants in their school environment and then asked to consider where new trees could be planted.

  Teacher booklet                         Student PowerPoint                                                         Student files

Years 3–4 assessment task: Cooling the school

The Years 3–4 assessment task focuses on digital systems (integrating Digital Technologies and HASS). The digital systems assessment task provides a scaffold to teach about and assess your students’ understanding of how digital systems can be used to monitor and collect information used for mapping and making judgements about the environment. Students are asked to record information using a range of digital systems to investigate a school need, and design solutions to improve the school environment by determining how ‘cool’ their school is.

Teacher booklet

Years 5–6 assessment task: Digital systems to encourage fit and healthy activity

The Years 5–6 assessment task focuses on how and why digital systems are used (integrating Digital Technologies and HASS).

Teacher booklet	Student task portfolio	Unit plan	Teacher PowerPoint