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  • What is Digital Technologies about?
  • Big Ideas and Significant Learning
  • Key Competencies in Digital Technologies
  • Connections
  • Learning Pathway
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What is Digital Technologies about?

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  • Transcript: In conversation with  Melinda Stevenson Jim Bell John Creighton Transcript below: I think that teachers will notice a reduction in their workload. I believe that it will give them a lot more flexibility for programme planning

Subject-specific terms can be found in the glossary.

Technology is intervention by design. Digital Technologies focuses on building ākonga capability to apply technological ideas within a digital environment. Digital Technologies is a broad subject that covers many domains, for example:

  • software programming
  • electronic environments and embedded systems
  • digital information systems
  • digital media.

As they study, ākonga will develop computational thinking skills, and the ability to design and develop digital outcomes. They will also learn how computers represent and process data — the fundamental material of the subject. Ākonga will develop an understanding of how data can be organised and the ethical issues surrounding its use. They will learn about the digital design and development processes used to create, test, and evaluate digital outcomes. Ākonga will practise manaakitanga as they learn to prioritise users in the outcomes they develop, and understand how Digital Technologies outcomes impact on the people who use them.

Finally, ākonga will learn fundamental principles and concepts that existing and emerging technologies are built on. This knowledge will allow them to quickly adapt to the challenges and opportunities offered by new technologies. They will become informed users, and innovative creators, of technology.

Subject-specific terms can be found in the glossary.

Technology is intervention by design. Digital Technologies focuses on building ākonga capability to apply technological ideas within a digital environment. Digital Technologies is a broad subject that covers many domains, for example:

  • software programming
  • electronic environments and embedded systems
  • digital information systems
  • digital media.

As they study, ākonga will develop computational thinking skills, and the ability to design and develop digital outcomes. They will also learn how computers represent and process data — the fundamental material of the subject. Ākonga will develop an understanding of how data can be organised and the ethical issues surrounding its use. They will learn about the digital design and development processes used to create, test, and evaluate digital outcomes. Ākonga will practise manaakitanga as they learn to prioritise users in the outcomes they develop, and understand how Digital Technologies outcomes impact on the people who use them.

Finally, ākonga will learn fundamental principles and concepts that existing and emerging technologies are built on. This knowledge will allow them to quickly adapt to the challenges and opportunities offered by new technologies. They will become informed users, and innovative creators, of technology.

Big Ideas and Significant Learning

This section outlines the meaning of, and connection between, the Big Ideas and Significant Learning, which together form the Learning Matrix. It then explains each Digital Technologies Big Idea.

The Technology Learning Area, including its whakataukī, inform this subject's Significant Learning — learning that is critical for students to know, understand, and do in a subject by the end of each Curriculum Level. This covers knowledge, skills, competencies, and attitudes. It also includes level-appropriate contexts students should encounter in their education. The Learning Area's whakataukī is:

Kaua e rangiruatia te hāpai o te hoe; e kore tō tātou waka e ū ki uta.

Do not lift the paddle out of unison; our canoe will never reach the shore.

The whakapapa and meaning of the Technology Learning Area whakataukī

The Technology Learning Area whakataukī offers a framework for understanding technology practice. It tells the story of ākonga within the Technology Learning Area embarking on a shared journey, collaborating with others to achieve a goal.

In Digital Technologies, the waka represents the development of the digital technologies outcome. It is made by people, for people. Ākonga and kaiako work together to guide the waka to new destinations. Everyone in the waka has a role to play. We all come from different places, bringing diverse perspectives and unique skillsets to the team. The waka is led by innovation. Sometimes we may set out on our journey with all blue skies and calm seas, but skies can be deceiving, and tides can turn. Paddling in harmony, ākonga will use their skills to be innovative and adapt to conditions while working towards a shared outcome. Together, ākonga will learn to use their knowledge and judgement to decide which is the best route to take and, with practice, they will become more independent and more able to chart their own routes.

The journey is the technological process. Ākonga will learn to calm the waters and be one with the environment, to read and respect their surroundings, know when to power through, and when to let the waters guide them. Their waka journey will teach ākonga to be more confident in their abilities. With the positive and reinforcing guidance of the kaiako/captain, they will be able to challenge their own thinking.

The shore represents the end point in the process that ākonga have undertaken. The innovation and strategies used on the journey determine the landing point. A waka journey can teach ākonga to move out of their comfort zones, to take risks, and to explore their own capabilities and those of the digital tools they use. In a waka, nothing is done alone, any risk is taken together. Before adapting processes, it is important to know and understand the conventions of the discipline — to know the rules before breaking them. Ākonga must understand the digital technologies, the technological practice, and how both are evolving.

The subject's Big Ideas and Significant Learning are collated into a Learning Matrix for Curriculum Level 6. Teachers can use the Learning Matrix as a tool to construct learning programmes that cover all the not-to-be-missed learning in a subject. There is no prescribed order to the Learning Matrix within each level. A programme of learning might begin with a context that is relevant to the local area of the school or an idea that students are particularly interested in. This context or topic must relate to at least one Big Idea and may also link to other Big Ideas.

There are four Big Ideas in Digital Technologies. The nature of this subject as a discipline means aspects of Significant Learning often cross over multiple Big Ideas, and vice versa.

This section outlines the meaning of, and connection between, the Big Ideas and Significant Learning, which together form the Learning Matrix. It then explains each Digital Technologies Big Idea.

The Technology Learning Area, including its whakataukī, inform this subject's Significant Learning — learning that is critical for students to know, understand, and do in a subject by the end of each Curriculum Level. This covers knowledge, skills, competencies, and attitudes. It also includes level-appropriate contexts students should encounter in their education. The Learning Area's whakataukī is:

Kaua e rangiruatia te hāpai o te hoe; e kore tō tātou waka e ū ki uta.

Do not lift the paddle out of unison; our canoe will never reach the shore.

The whakapapa and meaning of the Technology Learning Area whakataukī

The Technology Learning Area whakataukī offers a framework for understanding technology practice. It tells the story of ākonga within the Technology Learning Area embarking on a shared journey, collaborating with others to achieve a goal.

In Digital Technologies, the waka represents the development of the digital technologies outcome. It is made by people, for people. Ākonga and kaiako work together to guide the waka to new destinations. Everyone in the waka has a role to play. We all come from different places, bringing diverse perspectives and unique skillsets to the team. The waka is led by innovation. Sometimes we may set out on our journey with all blue skies and calm seas, but skies can be deceiving, and tides can turn. Paddling in harmony, ākonga will use their skills to be innovative and adapt to conditions while working towards a shared outcome. Together, ākonga will learn to use their knowledge and judgement to decide which is the best route to take and, with practice, they will become more independent and more able to chart their own routes.

The journey is the technological process. Ākonga will learn to calm the waters and be one with the environment, to read and respect their surroundings, know when to power through, and when to let the waters guide them. Their waka journey will teach ākonga to be more confident in their abilities. With the positive and reinforcing guidance of the kaiako/captain, they will be able to challenge their own thinking.

The shore represents the end point in the process that ākonga have undertaken. The innovation and strategies used on the journey determine the landing point. A waka journey can teach ākonga to move out of their comfort zones, to take risks, and to explore their own capabilities and those of the digital tools they use. In a waka, nothing is done alone, any risk is taken together. Before adapting processes, it is important to know and understand the conventions of the discipline — to know the rules before breaking them. Ākonga must understand the digital technologies, the technological practice, and how both are evolving.

The subject's Big Ideas and Significant Learning are collated into a Learning Matrix for Curriculum Level 6. Teachers can use the Learning Matrix as a tool to construct learning programmes that cover all the not-to-be-missed learning in a subject. There is no prescribed order to the Learning Matrix within each level. A programme of learning might begin with a context that is relevant to the local area of the school or an idea that students are particularly interested in. This context or topic must relate to at least one Big Idea and may also link to other Big Ideas.

There are four Big Ideas in Digital Technologies. The nature of this subject as a discipline means aspects of Significant Learning often cross over multiple Big Ideas, and vice versa.

Title: The discipline of Digital Technologies embodies whanaungatanga. Outcomes are made by people, for people, within cultural, social, and environmental contexts

Big Idea Body:

Digital technologies are influenced by the worldview and experiences of the people who create them. Ākonga will bring their unique backgrounds and experiences to this subject and to the outcomes they create.

At the same time, technology serves people, and creators of digital outcomes have a responsibility to practise and model manaakitanga for the people who will use these outcomes. They will also learn about their responsibility to protect the digital resources they use, and practise kaitiakitanga for this data. Ākonga will learn to consider the perspectives of others and use an ao Māori lens to critically examine their work. They will also appreciate that usability heuristics and end-user experience are key considerations in the design of software systems.

Big
Idea

The discipline of Digital Technologies embodies whanaungatanga. Outcomes are made by people, for people, within cultural, social, and environmental contexts

Digital technologies are influenced by the worldview and experiences of the people who create them. Ākonga will bring their unique backgrounds and experiences to this subject and to the outcomes they create.

At the same time, technology serves people, and creators of digital outcomes have a responsibility to practise and model manaakitanga for the people who will use these outcomes. They will also learn about their responsibility to protect the digital resources they use, and practise kaitiakitanga for this data. Ākonga will learn to consider the perspectives of others and use an ao Māori lens to critically examine their work. They will also appreciate that usability heuristics and end-user experience are key considerations in the design of software systems.

Title: Digital outcomes are created for a purpose by following established processes

Big Idea Body:

Digital technologies outcomes are designed to address an identified need or opportunity and are developed by following, and building on, established tikanga. Ākonga will learn that there are different design processes grounded in different traditions and each follows its own tikanga. They will also follow an iterative process to develop digital outcomes using a cycle of testing, refining, and re-testing.

Working with others is key to these processes. Talanoa, wānanga, kōrero, mahi tahi, collaboration, and feedback allow a technologist to draw on the knowledge of others to strengthen the design and outcome, increasing its fitness for purpose.

Evaluation of the design or outcome gives ākonga the opportunity to reflect on their work and how well it addresses the need or meets the opportunity identified at the beginning of the process.

Big
Idea

Digital outcomes are created for a purpose by following established processes

Digital technologies outcomes are designed to address an identified need or opportunity and are developed by following, and building on, established tikanga. Ākonga will learn that there are different design processes grounded in different traditions and each follows its own tikanga. They will also follow an iterative process to develop digital outcomes using a cycle of testing, refining, and re-testing.

Working with others is key to these processes. Talanoa, wānanga, kōrero, mahi tahi, collaboration, and feedback allow a technologist to draw on the knowledge of others to strengthen the design and outcome, increasing its fitness for purpose.

Evaluation of the design or outcome gives ākonga the opportunity to reflect on their work and how well it addresses the need or meets the opportunity identified at the beginning of the process.

Title: The discipline of Digital Technologies embodies auahatanga. Outcomes solve problems and enhance and expand human possibilities

Big Idea Body:

Computers are flexible and universal machines. They use data and algorithms to create connections, solve problems, and perform tasks humans cannot. Ākonga will understand how knowledge, skills, and collaboration in this field allows people to improve outcomes and develop new solutions to existing problems. They will appreciate that the boundaries of what is possible are not fixed, and in many ways, are limited only by human imagination.

Digital Technologies is a fast-moving discipline driven by auahatanga — innovative thinking. Ākonga will learn through creation and experimentation and will be encouraged to raweke with the tools they use, and be bold and imaginative with their ideas.

Big
Idea

The discipline of Digital Technologies embodies auahatanga. Outcomes solve problems and enhance and expand human possibilities

Computers are flexible and universal machines. They use data and algorithms to create connections, solve problems, and perform tasks humans cannot. Ākonga will understand how knowledge, skills, and collaboration in this field allows people to improve outcomes and develop new solutions to existing problems. They will appreciate that the boundaries of what is possible are not fixed, and in many ways, are limited only by human imagination.

Digital Technologies is a fast-moving discipline driven by auahatanga — innovative thinking. Ākonga will learn through creation and experimentation and will be encouraged to raweke with the tools they use, and be bold and imaginative with their ideas.

Title: All digital technologies are underpinned by algorithms and computer science principles

Big Idea Body:

Computers are information processing agents. Their power lies in their capacity to process vast quantities of information very quickly. This power is exploited through the implementation of algorithms — precise instructions for solving problems that a computer can follow mechanically. Computers can execute any algorithm we programme them to use, and this makes them exceptionally flexible and useful. Ākonga will learn about some of the algorithms and computer science principles that underpin all the digital tools we use and rely on.

Big
Idea

All digital technologies are underpinned by algorithms and computer science principles

Computers are information processing agents. Their power lies in their capacity to process vast quantities of information very quickly. This power is exploited through the implementation of algorithms — precise instructions for solving problems that a computer can follow mechanically. Computers can execute any algorithm we programme them to use, and this makes them exceptionally flexible and useful. Ākonga will learn about some of the algorithms and computer science principles that underpin all the digital tools we use and rely on.

Key Competencies in Digital Technologies

Developing Key Competencies through Digital Technologies

Digital Technologies allows ākonga to utilise their thinking and creative skills, their interpersonal skills, and their self management skills as they create digital outcomes for use by themselves and others. The curriculum Key Competencies are woven through the Digital Technologies Significant Learning and Big Ideas. Ākonga will develop the following Key Competencies:

Thinking

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • practise computational thinking: decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, algorithms, logic, and evaluation
  • identify user needs and requirements
  • understand and apply design methodologies
  • understand and develop knowledge of aesthetic and functional considerations
  • understand and apply conventions and established processes
  • learn and practise techniques in new domains, using specialist software
  • critically investigate existing and emerging technologies and their impacts
  • use a range of perspectives to evaluate outcomes
  • demonstrate creative thinking.

Using language, symbols and text

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • apply usability heuristics principles
  • understand how to represent data effectively
  • understand that the symbols and colours that are used in interfaces will communicate different meanings to different cultures, and how to use these carefully
  • use common programming and markup languages and notations
  • use discipline-specific terminology for clear communication during development
  • use Digital Technologies design notations such as schematics and flowcharts
  • use documentation and style guides
  • engage in kōrero for telling their own digital technology practice story and articulating their decision making process
  • understand that domains have their own syntaxes and use these accurately.

Relating to others

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • practice manaakitanga to develop a user experience approach, constantly thinking of the outcome's end-user
  • understand and consider how their outcomes exist in bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand through applying an ao Māori lens and different perspectives
  • identify and gather a range of perspectives to influence their own design
  • gather and provide feedback throughout the design, development, and testing processes to improve designs and outcomes
  • understand how digital technologies outcomes impact not just the end user, but a wider population of the local and global community
  • engage and participate in a team.

Managing self

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • manage their time and resources effectively, to see a project to conclusion
  • develop an awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses
  • have the courage to seek new information or try new techniques — they will feel free to 'fail safe, fail fast'
  • practise perseverance and resilience
  • be aware of personal opinions and biases when engaging in collaborative work
  • understand the importance of manaakitanga and ethical practices as they relate to people in digital technology and work to include these considerations in their processes and work.

Participating and contributing

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • communicate and collaborate with others around the development of an outcome
  • understand that inquiry, action, and development processes require the consideration of different perspectives.

Key Competencies

This section of The New Zealand Curriculum Online offers specific guidance to school leaders and teachers on integrating the Key Competencies into the daily activities of the school and its Teaching and Learning Programmes.

Developing Key Competencies through Digital Technologies

Digital Technologies allows ākonga to utilise their thinking and creative skills, their interpersonal skills, and their self management skills as they create digital outcomes for use by themselves and others. The curriculum Key Competencies are woven through the Digital Technologies Significant Learning and Big Ideas. Ākonga will develop the following Key Competencies:

Thinking

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • practise computational thinking: decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, algorithms, logic, and evaluation
  • identify user needs and requirements
  • understand and apply design methodologies
  • understand and develop knowledge of aesthetic and functional considerations
  • understand and apply conventions and established processes
  • learn and practise techniques in new domains, using specialist software
  • critically investigate existing and emerging technologies and their impacts
  • use a range of perspectives to evaluate outcomes
  • demonstrate creative thinking.

Using language, symbols and text

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • apply usability heuristics principles
  • understand how to represent data effectively
  • understand that the symbols and colours that are used in interfaces will communicate different meanings to different cultures, and how to use these carefully
  • use common programming and markup languages and notations
  • use discipline-specific terminology for clear communication during development
  • use Digital Technologies design notations such as schematics and flowcharts
  • use documentation and style guides
  • engage in kōrero for telling their own digital technology practice story and articulating their decision making process
  • understand that domains have their own syntaxes and use these accurately.

Relating to others

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • practice manaakitanga to develop a user experience approach, constantly thinking of the outcome's end-user
  • understand and consider how their outcomes exist in bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand through applying an ao Māori lens and different perspectives
  • identify and gather a range of perspectives to influence their own design
  • gather and provide feedback throughout the design, development, and testing processes to improve designs and outcomes
  • understand how digital technologies outcomes impact not just the end user, but a wider population of the local and global community
  • engage and participate in a team.

Managing self

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • manage their time and resources effectively, to see a project to conclusion
  • develop an awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses
  • have the courage to seek new information or try new techniques — they will feel free to 'fail safe, fail fast'
  • practise perseverance and resilience
  • be aware of personal opinions and biases when engaging in collaborative work
  • understand the importance of manaakitanga and ethical practices as they relate to people in digital technology and work to include these considerations in their processes and work.

Participating and contributing

Students of Digital Technologies will:

  • communicate and collaborate with others around the development of an outcome
  • understand that inquiry, action, and development processes require the consideration of different perspectives.

Key Competencies

This section of The New Zealand Curriculum Online offers specific guidance to school leaders and teachers on integrating the Key Competencies into the daily activities of the school and its Teaching and Learning Programmes.

Connections

Digital Technologies has connections to all learning areas and many subjects, including:

  • all subjects within the Technology Learning Area
  • Science (especially Physics)
  • Mathematics and Statistics
  • English
  • Social Studies
  • other design-related subjects within The Arts Learning Area.

Digital Technologies has connections to all learning areas and many subjects, including:

  • all subjects within the Technology Learning Area
  • Science (especially Physics)
  • Mathematics and Statistics
  • English
  • Social Studies
  • other design-related subjects within The Arts Learning Area.

Learning Pathway

Ākonga studying Digital Technologies will gain knowledge, skills, and values which are useful in all facets of life, whether at home, in the community or in employment.  

Digital Technologies encourages creativity and critical thinking, and builds technical skills that will empower ākonga throughout their life beyond school. Digital Technologies sets ākonga up for pathways into a wide range of fields, from providing digital solutions to issues facing our world, helping people carry out daily tasks, information and communication technologies, to arts and entertainment. 

People are at the heart of digital technologies. Ākonga will be encouraged to understand the diverse needs and perspectives of the users they are creating digital solutions for. Ākonga will also develop their understanding of ethical considerations, which are increasingly important as technology pushes the boundaries of what is possible. As individuals, understanding the power of digital technologies enables ākonga to participate in a digital society in a safe and informed manner, and potentially to become digital innovators themselves. 

Ākonga studying Digital Technologies will gain knowledge, skills, and values which are useful in all facets of life, whether at home, in the community or in employment.  

Digital Technologies encourages creativity and critical thinking, and builds technical skills that will empower ākonga throughout their life beyond school. Digital Technologies sets ākonga up for pathways into a wide range of fields, from providing digital solutions to issues facing our world, helping people carry out daily tasks, information and communication technologies, to arts and entertainment. 

People are at the heart of digital technologies. Ākonga will be encouraged to understand the diverse needs and perspectives of the users they are creating digital solutions for. Ākonga will also develop their understanding of ethical considerations, which are increasingly important as technology pushes the boundaries of what is possible. As individuals, understanding the power of digital technologies enables ākonga to participate in a digital society in a safe and informed manner, and potentially to become digital innovators themselves. 

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Introduction to Sample Course Outlines

Sample Course Outlines are intended to help teachers and schools understand the new NCEA Learning and Assessment Matrices. Examples of how a year-long Digital Technologies course could be constructed using the new Learning and Assessment Matrices are provided here. They are indicative only and do not mandate any particular context or approach.

Sample Course Outlines are intended to help teachers and schools understand the new NCEA Learning and Assessment Matrices. Examples of how a year-long Digital Technologies course could be constructed using the new Learning and Assessment Matrices are provided here. They are indicative only and do not mandate any particular context or approach.

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Assessment Matrix

Conditions of Assessment for internally assessed standards

These Conditions provide guidelines for assessment against internally assessed Achievement Standards. Guidance is provided on:

  • specific requirements for all assessments against this Standard
  • appropriate ways of, and conditions for, gathering evidence
  • ensuring that evidence is authentic.

Assessors must be familiar with guidance on assessment practice in learning centres, including enforcing timeframes and deadlines. The NZQA website offers resources that would be useful to read in conjunction with these Conditions of Assessment.

The learning centre’s Assessment Policy and Conditions of Assessment must be consistent with NZQA’s Assessment Rules for Schools with Consent to Assess. This link includes guidance for managing internal moderation and the collection of evidence.

Gathering Evidence

Internal assessment provides considerable flexibility in the collection of evidence. Evidence can be collected in different ways to suit a range of teaching and learning styles, and a range of contexts of teaching and learning. Care needs to be taken to allow students opportunities to present their best evidence against the Standard(s) that are free from unnecessary constraints.

It is recommended that the design of assessment reflects and reinforces the ways students have been learning. Collection of evidence for the internally assessed Standards could include, but is not restricted to, an extended task, an investigation, digital evidence (such as recorded interviews, blogs, photographs, or film), or a portfolio of evidence.

Effective assessment should suit the nature of the learning being assessed, provide opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students, and be valid and fair.

Ensuring Authenticity of Evidence

Authenticity of student evidence needs to be assured regardless of the method of collecting evidence. This must be in line with the learning centre’s policy and NZQA’s Assessment Rules for Schools with Consent to Assess.

Ensure that the student’s evidence is individually identifiable and represents the student’s own work. This includes evidence submitted as part of a group assessment and evidence produced outside of class time or assessor supervision. For example, an investigation carried out over several sessions could include assessor observations, meeting with the student at a set milestone, or student’s use of a journal or photographic entries to record progress.

These Conditions provide guidelines for assessment against internally assessed Achievement Standards. Guidance is provided on:

  • specific requirements for all assessments against this Standard
  • appropriate ways of, and conditions for, gathering evidence
  • ensuring that evidence is authentic.

Assessors must be familiar with guidance on assessment practice in learning centres, including enforcing timeframes and deadlines. The NZQA website offers resources that would be useful to read in conjunction with these Conditions of Assessment.

The learning centre’s Assessment Policy and Conditions of Assessment must be consistent with NZQA’s Assessment Rules for Schools with Consent to Assess. This link includes guidance for managing internal moderation and the collection of evidence.

Gathering Evidence

Internal assessment provides considerable flexibility in the collection of evidence. Evidence can be collected in different ways to suit a range of teaching and learning styles, and a range of contexts of teaching and learning. Care needs to be taken to allow students opportunities to present their best evidence against the Standard(s) that are free from unnecessary constraints.

It is recommended that the design of assessment reflects and reinforces the ways students have been learning. Collection of evidence for the internally assessed Standards could include, but is not restricted to, an extended task, an investigation, digital evidence (such as recorded interviews, blogs, photographs, or film), or a portfolio of evidence.

Effective assessment should suit the nature of the learning being assessed, provide opportunities to meet the diverse needs of all students, and be valid and fair.

Ensuring Authenticity of Evidence

Authenticity of student evidence needs to be assured regardless of the method of collecting evidence. This must be in line with the learning centre’s policy and NZQA’s Assessment Rules for Schools with Consent to Assess.

Ensure that the student’s evidence is individually identifiable and represents the student’s own work. This includes evidence submitted as part of a group assessment and evidence produced outside of class time or assessor supervision. For example, an investigation carried out over several sessions could include assessor observations, meeting with the student at a set milestone, or student’s use of a journal or photographic entries to record progress.

1.1
Create a computer program

Students may not use the computer program created for this Standard for AS92005 Develop a digital technologies outcome.

Student work which has received sustained or detailed feedback is not suitable for submission towards this Standard. Assessor involvement during the assessment is limited to providing general feedback on aspects of the work that the student may need to revisit.

Submissions should consist of the student’s program (or source code) and evidence of testing.

Selection of evidence for submission is to be carried out by the student.

Students may use a text-based language or a graphical one.

Evidence for all parts of this assessment can be in te reo Māori, English, or New Zealand Sign Language.

1.2
Develop a digital technologies outcome

Student work which has received sustained or detailed feedback is not suitable for submission towards this Standard. Assessor involvement during the assessment is limited to providing general feedback on aspects of the work that the student may need to revisit.

Evidence for this Standard will be evident in the outcome itself and through additional forms of evidence that can include:

  • annotated screenshots
  • audio or video recordings, or screencasts
  • planning boards
  • testing documentation (such as testing tables)
  • images
  • written descriptions of what they have done and why (such as specifications).

Submissions should consist of no more than five A4 pages or no more than 3 minutes of video or audio. Selection of evidence for submission is to be carried out by the student.

Evidence for all parts of this assessment can be in te reo Māori, English, or New Zealand Sign Language.

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