This document provides an overview of the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence from Reception to Year 6. It introduces the presenter, Joanne Villis, as a Year 5 teacher and ICT coordinator who has experience presenting on topics related to smartboards, web design, and iPads. The main topics covered in the curriculum are then summarized as data, digital systems, algorithms, information systems, and safety/ethical use online. Examples and resources are provided for teaching each of these topics at different year levels.

1. Digital Technologies
Resources R-Y6
Joanne Villis

2. Hello!About me:
- Year 5 Teacher & ICT coordinator
- Presenter (smartboards, web design, iPads)
- Recently Microsoft (Seattle and Town Hall,
SA)
The presentation is based on a document I
created which covers the Australian Curriculum
Digital Technologies Scope and Sequence For
Reception to Year 6. The document can be
downloaded from: Inter-Tech Education.
My Contact Details:
jvillis@sac.sa.edu.au
https://intertecheducation.edublogs.org/
https://au.pinterest.com/joannevillis/

3. 1. Data (representing, managing, analysing)
2. Digital systems (understanding, using)
3. Algorithms
4. Information systems (how and why people
use them)
5. Safety and ethical use online
I’ve broken the Australian Digital Technologies
curriculum into 5 main concepts/topics:
Digital Technologies

4. Data

5. Data (R-Y2)
- Begin by collecting, sorting and representing
data (integrate with Math)
http://www.abcya.com/fuzz_bugs_graphing.htm

6. Data (R-Y2)
- Microsoft Word, creating a list of items,
inserting a table
- Graphic software (ie TuxPaint, KidPix) or Apps
to create picture graphs
- Explore symbols that represent data. For
example, an email address has a name
followed by an @ symbol followed by type of
name.

7. Data (R-Y2)
- Organising data (Popplet for iPad and or try
online) http://popplet.com/app/#/demo

8. Data (Y3-Y4)
- Syncing devices with OneDrive and
folder set up (don’t use USB)
- Backing up data (ie MineCraft -
%appdata%)
- Customising icons, start menu, desk top
- Installing own programs (application
catalogue)

9. Data (Y3-Y4)
Explore cells,
columns, rows
(Pixel art)
Data into
spreadsheet
and
generate
graph
Headings,
labels,
auto sum

10. Image Data (Y3-Y4)
- File extensions .jpg and .png
- Royalty free image websites (ie pixabay.com,
pics4learning.com) and download size
- Zooming in on images

11. Image Data (Y3-Y4)
Compare computer game images

12. Data (Y5-Y6)

13. Data (Y5-Y6)

14. Sound Data (Y5-Y6)
- Integrate with Media Arts

15. QR Data (Y5-Y6)
- Students investigate how they work
- For what purposes might they be useful?
- Ask students to create their own codes for
a particular purpose
- http://www.createqrcodes.org/

16. Acquiring Data (Y5-Y6)
- Filtering and performing queries using
advance searches
- Domain suffixes (ie .com, .edu, .org, .gov)
- Explore different search engines, there is
more out there and Google!
- Gogogooligans, KidRex, Boolify,
Duckduckgo, Instagrok

17. Managing Data (Y5-Y6)
- Investigate viruses and malware, what
are they?
- Area for development
- Create an infomercial/jingle about what
they learnt (ie Windows Media Player)

18. Digital Systems

19. Digital Systems (R-Y2)
- Students explore why do we use types of
technologies? Students pick a
technology and describe what it is used
for.
- Name and explain the function of a
mouse, touch pad, touch screen,
Interactive TV, keyboard and stylus.

20. Digital Systems (R-Y2)
What is a mouse? Main problem we see
today with Junior Primary classes…
http://www.abcya.com/counting_sorting_com
paring.htm

21. Digital Systems (Y2-Y3)
Hello Ruby: My First Computer
http://www.helloruby.com/play/2

22. Digital Systems (Y5-Y6)
Inside a computer – Study Ladder has good
resources

23. Digital Systems (Y5-Y6)
Make a connection to the device you prefer.

24. Digital Systems (Y5-Y6)
- Explore how the Internet works
- Students don’t realise the difference
between web browsers and search engines

25. Algorithms

26. Algorithms (R-Y2)
Too many resources to go through all of them.
My favourites:

27. Algorithms (Y3-Y4)

28. Algorithms/Gaming (Y5-Y6)

29. Algorithms/Gaming (Y5-Y6)
Binary code necklace: https://bycommonconsent.com/2014/10/19/activity-day-
girls-craft-idea-binary-code-necklace/

30. Algorithms/Gaming (Y5-Y6)

31. Information Systems

32. Information Systems(R-Y2)
- What is communication?
- How do you communicate?
- How do your parents or older siblings
communicate?

33. Information Systems(R-Y2)
- How have information systems
changed overtime?
- Students might interview
family members about how
they communicated when
younger or visit the museum
and investigate?
- How did Indigenous
Australians traditionally
communicate?

34. Information Systems(Y3-Y4)
- Visit your local museum and or library and
record different types of technology being
used.
- What is the function of the technology?
- How does the technology assist the users?

35. Information Systems(Y3-Y4)
- Integrate with other subjects (ie Plants in
action)
Name of hardware/
software
What did this hardware
help you to do?
What else might this
hardware help you
with?
Video camera
Microsoft pen
Fresh Paint app

36. Information Systems(Y5-Y6)
Touch Screens
- What are they and how do they work?
- How and where are they used in our
environment? ie supermarket, train station,
shopping centre, airport etc.
- How might they help users?

37. Information Systems(Y5-Y6)
-Investigate GPS (global tracking systems)
- Pokemon Go: Students research and explore
how Pokémon Go works. Why it was such a big
success?

38. Safety/ethics

39. Safety/ethics
- Need for a scope and sequence

40. Safety/ethics (R-Y2)
- ABCYA.com Cyber Five
- How to close a pop up video.
- Log in, passwords
- Hectors World

41. Safety/ethics (Y3-Y4)
- My Online Neighbourhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO7t92k4Xg
- Kim and Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMUbHuffO8
- Cyber Pigs http://mediasmarts.ca/game/privacy-playground-first-adventure-
three-cyberpigs

42. Safety/ethics (Y3-Y4)
- Online Referencing Generator
http://www.slasa.asn.au/home.html

43. Safety/ethics (Y5)
- Integrate with Civics and Citizenship
- Copyright, creative commons and licencing
- Social media, rules and regulations
- Digital footprint, creating digital content
- Netiquette
- Plagiarism

44. Safety/ethics (Y6)
https://budd-e.cybersmart.gov.au/index.html

45. Additional time?