AC9TDI8K02
Year 7
Technologies
AC9TDI8K02 – Year 7 Technologies: Digital systems
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Digital systems
This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 Description
investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
Elaborations
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1
describing physical networks and comparing their properties, for example the bandwidth, latency and reliability of wired versus wireless networks
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2
explaining why cryptography is necessary for securing data, for example transmitting credit card details over the internet
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3
exploring simple encryption and decryption algorithms, for example ROT13 and XOR
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4
explaining how problems occur in network communication and how they can be solved, for example routers can drop packets and how Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) uses acknowledgements to confirm packets have been received
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