Level 3 Digital Technology 2025
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Rowena Bullock.
This course focuses on developing complex knowledge and skills in the areas of Programming and Digital Design and Digital Media. A year-long programme of work can follow student’s personal inquiry project.
Students investigate a real-world issue of their choice. They complete all internals based on this issue, within the context of United Nations Sustanable Development goals.
Digital Design: Students create a design for a digital media outcome while applying user experience methodologies. This design then forms the basis of the outcome created for Achievement Standard 91909.
Digital Media: Students create a digital outcome using complex skills with Agile and User Experience methodologies. Ethical implications are examined and applied in all digital outcomes. The outcome addresses their chosen issue.
Programming and Computational Thinking: Students develop complex skills in ‘Python’ programming, with GUI and learn to follow conventions within this language. The programme outcome addresses their chosen issue.
External (DCAT) Exam: Students sit a Common Assessment task (early in Term 4) as a reflection of the digital outcomes they created throughout the year.
Those students who wish to enter Scholarship will have the opportunity to do so. This requires a written, reflective report based on their technological experiences throughout the year and work completed during weekly scholarship workshops.
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Recommended Prior Learning
Level 2 Digital Technology, or at the discretion of the Teacher in Charge of Digital
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
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NZQA Info
Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.2 - Apply user experience methodologies to develop a design for a digital technologies outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.4 - Use complex techniques to develop a digital media outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.7 - Use complex programming techniques to develop a computer program
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.8 - Use complex processes to develop a digital technologies outcome
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Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko 3.10 - Present a reflective analysis of developing a digital outcome
Course Videos
Disclaimer
- Availability of all courses is subject to student numbers and staffing
- Some courses will not be available if numbers are too small
- Some classes may be combined by Year level (e.g. Year 11 and 12 in one class) if numbers do not make separate classes viable
- It may not be possible to accommodate all choices and combinations of subjects
- Parents/Caregivers and students need to satisfy themselves that a chosen course meets the student’s goals for the following year and beyond