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Digital technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Curriculum content descriptions
Acquire data from a range of sources and evaluate authenticity, accuracy and timeliness (ACTDIP025)
Elaborations
- designing a search engine query to find specific information on the web and checking its accuracy against information contained in other sources, for example entering instructions such as intitle: and inurl: prefixes to find information within a general directory, and comparing the results with information found in a wiki
- acquiring data from a range of sources, for example people, websites, books, mobile phones, radiofrequency identification (RFID) and data repositories such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics datasets, and compiling these data into a digital format
- checking authenticity of data, for example ensuring the source or author is a reliable individual or organisation
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Data representation, Data collection, Information management, Collation