AC9TDI8K02
Years 7 to 8
Technologies
AC9TDI8K02 | Years 7 to 8 Digital Technologies: Digital systems
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Digital systems
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Digital Technologies. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration describing physical networks and comparing their properties, for example the bandwidth, latency and reliability of wired versus wireless networks
- • Elaboration explaining why cryptography is necessary for securing data, for example transmitting credit card details over the internet
- • Elaboration exploring simple encryption and decryption algorithms, for example ROT13 and XOR
- • Elaboration 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
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats.See it on the standard page →
- They select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats.See it on the standard page →
Read the full Years 7 to 8 Digital Technologies achievement standard
Read the full Years 7 to 8 Technologies (all subjects) achievement standard