AC9TDI6P07 Year 5 Technologies

AC9TDI6P07 – Year 5 Technologies: Collaborating and managing

Strand

Processes and production skills

Substrand

Collaborating and managing

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions

Elaborations

• creating achievable steps and timeframes and identifying digital tools needed to produce a solution to a given problem, for example planning what they need to do to create a report on the effectiveness of the school's recycling initiatives
• locating content through search engines and in documents by revising queries and using required search terms, for example reviewing search results and modifying search terms to make the query more accurate
• creating appropriate content that reflects planning as well as new external factors, for example uploading a draft of a report on a local government issue to the teacher for feedback as part of an iterative process
• creating content for a school celebration, for example designing a collaborative spreadsheet that can be used by a small group to plan and cost their graduation party, together with a folder of tagged resources which support the planning
• judging the tone and appropriateness for the intended audience of text generated using autocomplete; for example, deciding that the predictive text was too formal for a conversation with a friend and rewriting it in more casual language

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASTECTDIY56

Year 5 Technologies Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6 students develop and modify digital solutions, and define problems and evaluate solutions using user stories and design criteria. They process data and show how digital systems represent data. Students design algorithms involving complex branching and iteration and implement them as visual programs including variables. They securely access and use multiple digital systems and describe their components and how they interact to process and transmit data. Students select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, applying agreed conventions and behaviours. They identify their digital footprint and recognise its permanence.