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Year 11

Unit 1 – Media information and communication technologies

This unit focuses on the use of digital technologies to create and manipulate digital media. Students use a range of applications to create visual and audio communications. They examine trends in digital media transmissions and implications arising from the use of these technologies.

Unit 2 – Digital technologies in business

This unit focuses on the skills, principles and practices associated with various types of documents and communications. Students identify the components and configuration of networks to meet the needs of a business. Students design digital solutions for clients being, mindful of the various impacts of technologies within legal, ethical and social boundaries.

Year 12

Unit 3 – Evolving digital technologies

This unit focuses on the use of applications to create, modify, manipulate, use and/or manage technologies.

Students consider the nature and impact of technological change and the effect this has when creating products for a particular purpose and audience.

Unit 4 – Digital technologies within a global society

This unit focuses on the production of a digital solution for a particular client. Students undertake the management of data and develop an appreciation of the social, ethical and legal impacts of digital technologies within a global community.