Year 7 Digital Technologies
Year 7 Digital Technologies on VCE Vault: 12 lessons written for Year 7 (Victorian Curriculum), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$7.99.
Lessons
Digital Systems
- How Computers Work — Hardware and Software (free) — Describe the main components of a computer system and how hardware and software interact.
- Networks and the Internet (free) — Describe how networks function, how data is transmitted and the role of protocols.
Data and Information
- Binary Numbers and Data Representation (free) — Explain how computers represent data using binary and convert between binary and decimal.
- Data — Collecting, Organising and Evaluating — Collect, organise and evaluate data, considering authenticity, accuracy and timeliness.
- Cybersecurity and Online Safety — Identify cybersecurity threats and apply strategies to stay safe online.
- Ethical and Responsible Digital Citizenship — Analyse ethical issues in digital technology including privacy, intellectual property and sustainability.
Creating Digital Solutions
- Algorithms — Planning Step-by-Step Solutions (free) — Design and represent algorithms using pseudocode and flowcharts.
- Introduction to Programming — Scratch and Python Basics — Write simple programs using sequences, variables and basic input/output.
- Selection and Iteration in Programming — Use if/elif/else selection and for/while loops in Python programs.
- Decomposition and Problem Solving — Apply computational thinking (decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition) to solve problems.
- User Experience and Interface Design — Design and evaluate user interfaces applying UX principles.
- Project Management — Planning Digital Projects — Plan, manage and evaluate a digital project using project management techniques.