10 Digital Technology (Full year course)
10DIT Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mr N. Wright.
10 Digital Technology (10DIT Full year course)
This course will focus on learning skills, theory and concepts in Digital Media, Information Management, Programming and Technological Process. This will help prepare students for NCEA for Year 11. The course will be theme based, focussing on raising awareness around a topic in business study that will be selected from a teacher-provided menu of choices at the beginning of the year. The skills and concepts offered through the year - but not limited to are:
- Python Programming - students build a foundation in programming using Python. They’ll learn to work with variables, data types, lists, loops, conditional logic, and functions, all while building a passion for programming through our engaging project-based lessons. The fundamental programming skills they’ll learn in this course are transferrable between programming languages and problem domains. After completing this course, students are ready to tackle the next steps in level one programming.
- Illustration - design and create a logo for your business using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and associated tools.
- Animations – create an animation profiling/promoting your business topic using Adobe Animates or Blender.
- Website Design – design and create a website to promote a business, using HTML5 and CSS.
- Game Design – further develop coding skills by designing a game using Scratch v2, Gamefroot, Construct 2 and many other platforms
- Robotics / Electronic solutions - using microbits and or mBots.
- The Google Suite and InDesign - using documents to record milestones and track iterative technological processes (using Google Docs, Slides and Sheets), and desktop publishing for print design (brochures using InDesign). Students will follow the Technological process to plan and develop original designs and documents.
- Curious About Artificial Intelligence?
In Year 10 Digital Technologies, you’ll get the chance to explore the world of AI through fun and hands-on AI workshops! Learn how machines think, train your own mini AIs, and discover how AI is used in games, apps, and real life. No experience needed — just bring your imagination and curiosity!
Adobe Illustrator
Student Work:
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Animation
Student Work:
Year 10 Students Programming MicroBits
Year 10 Game Programming/Game Development
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Software applications include:
Godot
Python 3
MBots/Arduino
AdobeCC (Photoshop, In Design, Dreamweaver, Animate and Illustrator)
Blender
Scratch
Assessments: Project Work will be assessed during each term.
Course Overview
Term 1
Students will use different perspectives to explore the impact of an existing digital technologies outcome, including a te ao Māori perspective in:
*** Web Design (DDDO) and Web Programming (CT)
Term 2
Students will use different perspectives to explore the impact of an existing digital technologies outcome, including a te ao Māori perspective in:
*** Strand A: Programming through either Game Design (CT), App Inventor, or Python
or
*** Strand B: Python Robotics with MBots
Term 3
Students will use different perspectives to explore the impact of an existing digital technologies outcome, including a te ao Māori perspective in:
*** Still Images, or Augmented Reality (DDDO)
Term 4
Students will use different perspectives to explore the impact of an existing digital technologies outcome, including a te ao Māori perspective in:
*** Animation
Year 10 Option Selection - Full Year Courses (Select 2 subjects), Technology
Assessment Policy & Procedures Pathway
YEAR 11 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
Career options in future could include programming, software engineering, game maker, media developer eg animator or graphic image manipulation, network technician, hardware technician, software design, database developer, database administrator.
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Robotics are the bridge between mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and even psychology. Each route places the main focus of study on a different core part of robotics:
1. "The Body" - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
This branch of engineering looks at the physical systems which make up a robot. Subtopics like mechanics, materials engineering and manufacturing are core to industrial robotics. Often, mechanical engineering courses will have specialization in mechatronics or robotics, but these tend to be focused mostly on physical design and actuation.
2. "The Nervous System" - ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
This branch of engineering gives you the basics of electronics, embedded systems, low-level programming, and control theory. Often, electrical engineering courses will also provide specializations in robotics or automation, which will be centred around the control of robots rather than the mechanical design.
3. "The Brain" - COMPUTER SCIENCE
A lot of people in research seem to enter robotics through computer science. This trend is likely to continue as standard robotic hardware platforms become the norm. Common platforms remove the research focus from the physical hardware and instead allow researchers to concentrate on software and high-level programming. Often, these courses will include robotic programming topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Software Design. It is usually at this level of study where people with a background in psychology and related fields can enter robotics with a postgraduate Masters course.
These are the core 3, but there are also many other routes you could take to end up working in robotics. For example, just take a look at the top 25 women in robotics and you'll find people who have started out studying:
- Physics (e.g. Aude Billard from EPFL and Arianna Menciassi from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
- Cognitive Science and Psychology (e.g. Leila Takayama from Google X)
- Sociology and Social Psychology (e.g. Astrid Weiss from Vienna University of Technology).
Personal earphones or headphones are recommended.
A device to record video is also recommended.
An external storage with a minimum of 8 gb is necessary for this course i.e. usb
Annual Adobe Creative Cloud License for student's personal PC's or laptops at home (provides access to PhotoShop, Illustrator, Animates, InDesign, Lightroom, Premier Pro)
| Description | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud Licence | Voluntary | $9.00 |
| $9.00 | ||