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Explanation: School networks

Digital Technologies, Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6 students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. For each of the 3 prescribed technologies contexts students explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions. They process data and show how digital systems represent data, design algorithms involving complex branching and iteration, and implement them as visual programs including variables. They select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria. Students share and communicate ideas or content to an audience using technical terms, graphical representation techniques and appropriate digital tools. They develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed or digital solutions. Students securely access and use multiple digital systems and describe their components and how they interact to process and transmit data. They identify their digital footprint and recognise its permanence.

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.

Knowledge and understanding | Digital systems

AC9TDI6K01

investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function

Knowledge and understanding | Digital systems

AC9TDI6K02

examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data

Processes and prduction skills | Privacy and security

AC9TDI6P09

 

access multiple personal accounts using unique passphrases and explain the risks of password re-use

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Explains how digital systems are made up of many parts that each have a specific purpose.

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Explains how the individual components of a digital system work together to perform a function.

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Points out the security requirements (domain name) for accessing a digital system on a school network.

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Demonstrates the steps required to connect to an appropriate local area network (LAN) within a school setting.

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Transcript

In my classroom, our computers are all connected up via a local area network.  A local area network is where 2 or more computers are connected up via a wireless router. Using the local area network, we are able to share printers, share scanners, share files and share the internet.

 

On the school's computers we have a folder called Collaboration, where we can access all of the different classes’ files and if they want to save something and access it on another computer that's connected up to the school's network, they can save it in there and then access it on another computer.

 

There is a certain computer that sends out the address that the other computers need to have to be able to access it. And that computer sends out an IP address that the other computers need to have to be able to access it. And once they get their IP address, either type it in or connect up to that network, then they're able to access everything that that computer can.

 

So, if you're connecting up to the school's network via a laptop, you'll need to do @detnewsouthwales. But if you're in a computer lab using the desktop, you don't have to do that.

 

Down here on the bottom tab of the computer there is a internet button. And when you click on it, it shows you all the different networks you can connect to. And we want to connect to DET New South Wales, which is what we're already connected to. So, if we connect to that, we are able to access everything that the school has.

 

So, we can access the Collaboration folder, which is located in the computer files. We can also access the internet as well.