Achievement Standard Digital Technologies Years 9 and 10
By the end of Year 10, students explain the control and management of networked digital systems and the security implications of the interaction between hardware, software and users. They explain simple data compression, and why content data are separated …
Achievement Standard | Achievement Standards | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIK034
explaining how an operating system manages the relationship between hardware, applications and system software
Elaboration | ACTDIK034 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (3) ACTDIK034
explaining the role of hardware and software components in allowing people to interact with digital systems, for example using a mouse or touch pad or screen, speech, accelerometer
Elaboration (3) | ACTDIK034 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (5) ACTDIK034
explaining encryption of data as a means of protecting data, for example secret keys and ‘exclusive or’ (XOR) and hashing algorithms to digitally sign data
Elaboration (5) | ACTDIK034 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration ACTDIK035
explaining how simple compression schemes reduce the size of repetitive data, for example how run length encoding reduces the size of images
Elaboration | ACTDIK035 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (1) ACTDIK035
explaining the difference between lossy and lossless compression, for example the difference between JPEG and PNG images
Elaboration (1) | ACTDIK035 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum
Elaboration (2) ACTDIK035
explaining codecs for audio-visual compression, for example common codecs for video formats
Elaboration (2) | ACTDIK035 | Content Descriptions | Years 9 and 10 | Digital Technologies | Technologies | F-10 curriculum