Digital Technology in Year 9 covers the following topics:

• ICT programmes:
  • Word
  • Excel
  • Publisher
  • Power Point
  • Photoshop
  • Movie Maker
• Digital hardware use
• Responsible use of digital technologies
• Efficient text entry
• Ergonomics : Guidance for safe working practices
• Display of work
• Inserting of graphics, resizing, cropping
• Use of the Quick Keys
• Website searches
• Manipulation of text and images between various computer applications
• Cyber Safety

The skills you will develop in DigiTech will be used within a setting that encourages you to develop your critical, creative and analytical thinking processes.

Topics:

• Emphasis is on using computers for personal use and investigating various applications. 
• Students will assess the use of digital technologies in the classroom, including how computers can be used to present material and documentation.
• Word Processing
• Presentation & Design
• Spreadsheets
• Digital Technologies
• Photoshop
• Robotics
• Web2Tools

Skills: 

• Develop broad technological literacy that will allow them to participate in society as informed citizens.
• Computational Thinking – students express problems and formulate solutions in a way that means a computer can be used to solve them.
• Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes – students become efficient in manipulating and combining data, using information management tools to create an array of innovative outcomes.

Topics: 
This course aims to enable students to use a computer to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the role of digital tools and systems for managing information. 
• Communicate information and ideas using a variety of programmes.
• Process information by manipulating and reshaping words, figures and images in order to produce a document fit for the intended audience.

Skills:

• Develop broad technological literacy that will allow them to participate in society as informed citizens.
• Computational Thinking – students express problems and formulate solutions in a way that means a computer can be used to solve them.
• Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes – students become efficient in manipulating and combining data, using information management tools to create an array of innovative outcomes.

Topics:

• These build on understandings developed at Level  1.
• Developing a design  process using the technological process.
• Evaluating, integrations of digital media and social media, research, production.
• Produce original content and designs, using editing software, movie creation, animation integration, database, Desktop Publishing and coding. 

Skills:

• Understanding advanced concepts of information systems
• Evaluating and linking tools, techniques and design elements to digital media and digital information outcomes
• Planning and producing digital outcomes that are fit for the intended audience
• Developing overall knowledge, skills and techniques in Digital Technologies

Topics:

• These build on understandings developed at Level  2.
• Further Developing  a design  process using the technological process.
• Complex design and problem solving, integration of digital and social media, research, evaluation and production.
• Unit Standards offered cover Desktop Publishing, Database and Word Processing.

Skills:

• Understanding complex concepts of information systems
• Describing the use of interactive media software
• Understanding differences in technological designs by undertaking comparisons and a critique process