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7–10Computing Technology 7–10 Syllabus

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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Enterprise information systems: Analysing data
Identifying and defining

  • Identify common everyday uses of data and of analysing data

  • Identify various types of data and their uses

  • Explore differences between data and information

  • Explore small and big datasets

  • Identify methods of data collection and recording

  • Explore challenges in the collection of data

  • Compare the usefulness of different methods of data collection

Researching and planning

  • Explore the uses for data analysis

  • Collaboratively plan the collection of data for a particular purpose

  • Recognise that data is sensitive and needs to be stored securely

  • Explore security of data and its collection

  • Demonstrate ways to keep data safe

  • Recognise how programs process data

  • Engage with different data-analysis tools

  • Demonstrate how different data is displayed using digital tools

  • Participate in composing questions for an online questionnaire or survey

  • Collect various datasets using an online questionnaire or survey for visual analysis

  • Use formulas in a spreadsheet to analyse datasets

  • Explore and describe datasets in displayed graphs, tables or charts

  • Communicate how data can be used in everyday situations

  • Collaboratively plan the collection of data for a particular purpose

Producing and implementing

  • Use a scaffold to manage resources and time to complete a data project

  • Participate in the collection of data

  • Collect data and communicate the results

  • Interpret the collected data and find patterns that may affect a user’s interaction with a program or product

  • Use collected data from an online questionnaire or spreadsheet to develop a graph, chart or table using appropriate digital tools and technologies

  • Select the most appropriate software or hardware to display data

  • Create a display for data collected

  • Identify data patterns using spreadsheets related to real-world scenarios

  • Highlight patterns and relationships between sets of data and information

  • Produce a flat-file database using database software related to real-world scenarios

  • Collect data and present it using appropriate software

  • Communicate the importance of data security

Testing and evaluating

  • Share ideas about data as a useful tool for completing tasks

  • Independently or collaboratively develop a set of criteria to test displayed models of data using different scenarios

  • Independently or collaboratively test a designed database using a set of criteria, ensuring that data is displayed correctly and for the intended purpose

  • Communicate the outcomes of testing

  • Explore careers that involve analysing data

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