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11–12Computing Technology Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2024
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

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.

Intelligent systems
Systems and their applications
  • Define an intelligent system

  • Identify a range of intelligent systems used for daily living

  • Identify a range of expert systems

  • Identify purposes for intelligent and expert systems

  • Identify the functions that make expert and intelligent systems appear intelligent

  • Identify a range of expert and intelligent systems used in the workplace

  • Manage access to intelligent systems used in their own lives

  • Create a timeline of different expert and intelligent systems over generations using digital technologies

  • Explore ways that smart devices have a practical use in the environment, economy or society

  • Explore how various media is used within automated security systems

  • Visually represent the logical processes undertaken in an existing expert system

Creating intelligent systems
  • Use a scaffold to write an algorithm used in expert and intelligent systems

  • Participate in designing an expert or intelligent system that engages with a user, using block-based programming

  • Create a spreadsheet, using appropriate digital technologies, that emulates expert and intelligent system algorithms

  • Use QR codes to design a set of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) symbols for an individual with vision or hearing impairments

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