St Catherines College (Kilbirnie) St Catherines College (Kilbirnie)

Level 1 Digital Technology

DT100
Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Kamini Singh.

Recommended Prior Learning

Any student will have the opportunity to enter this course (regardless of their current knowledge or skill sets), as the course will initially teach and assess essential skills.


Course Description

Product & Digital Design is a course for students who wish to work on a project that is driven by their own interests. The range of contexts, project options and technical skills are wide and primarily driven by the students previous experiences with software and machinery. This is an exciting course as it brings together a range of learning areas such as creative design, science, engineering, business studies, digital media, computing, electronics, materials technologies and entrepreneurship in a project-based learning environment.

Outcomes designed and developed vary and can include but are not limited to:

  • Web development
  • Software development
  • Animation
  • 3D modelling
  • Film / Video Production
  • Graphic Design
  • Virtual / Augmented Reality
  • 3D Design for Manufacture
  • Game Design

This course provides grounding in key knowledge and skills for Level 2 Digital Technology.


Course Overview

Term 1
Digital Technologies 1.4 - Design a digital technologies outcome

Term 2
Digital Technologies 1.2 - Develop a digital technologies outcome

Term 3
Digital Technologies 1.3 - Demonstrate understanding of usability in human-computer interfaces

Learning Areas:

Technology


Career Pathways

Clinical Coder, Intelligence Officer, Animator/Digital Artist, Office Administrator, Advertising Specialist, Copywriter, Sales and Marketing Manager, Air Force Aviator, Air Force Officer, Product Assembler, Business Analyst, Software Developer, Patternmaker, Building Surveyor, Architect, Architectural Technician, Archivist, Army Officer, Army Soldier, Artist, Film and Video Editor