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WS01 - Digital project: website design

Technologies, Digital Technologies, Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts students explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. They acquire, interpret and model with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary.  Students design and trace algorithms; and implement them in a general-purpose programming language. Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools. They select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats. They use a range of digital tools to individually and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely and responsibly produce designed or digital solutions for the intended purpose. Students manage their digital footprint. 

By the end of Year 8 students develop and modify creative digital solutions, decompose real-world problems, and evaluate alternative solutions against user stories and design criteria. Students acquire, interpret and model data with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary. They design and trace algorithms and implement them in a general-purpose programming language. Students select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats. They select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to create, locate and share content; and to plan, collaborate on and manage projects. Students manage their digital footprint. 

Processes and production skills | Investigating and defining

AC9TDI8P04

define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories

Processes and production skills | Generating and designing

AC9TDI8P07

design the user experience of a digital system

Processes and production skills | Generating and designing

AC9TDI8P08

generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs

Processes and production skills | Evaluating

AC9TDI8P10

evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact

Processes and production skills | Collaborating and managing

AC9TDI8P11

select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions

Processes and production skills | Collaborating and managing

AC9TDI8P12

select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects

Annotations
 

1. Identifies an appropriate user story that clearly demonstrates the user needs.  

2. Decomposes the user story to simplify the planning and managing of the task. 

 

3. Reviews and analyses existing digital systems identifying appropriate design criteria.  

4. Draws and explains ideas for the structure of the digital solution (website). 

5. Creates a wireframe for the website that reflects the final layout. 

6. Develops the website appropriately for the audience.  

 

7. Creates clear and logical navigation. 

 

8. Applies appropriate safety protocols such as not showing faces in photographs.  

 

9. Uses photographs they have taken to avoid copyright issues.  

10. Judges the website comprehensively, reviewing it against the specified design criteria.