Connecting to Australia’s first digital technology curriculum

Australia finally has its first digital

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technology curriculum which is mandatory for all Australian children from Foundation, the name replacing kindergarten, to Year 8.

The Technologies area now has two individual but connected compulsory subjects:

• Design and Technologies, where students use critical thinking to create innovative solutions for authentic problems
• Digital Technologies, where students using computational thinking and information systems to implement digital solutions.

Computational thinking refers to a problem solving method that involves integrating strategies, such as organising data logically, breaking down problems, interpreting patterns and implementing algorithms.

https://theconversation.com/connecting-to-australias-first-digital-technology-curriculum-23507