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Digital technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information (ACTDIP016)

Elaborations

using digital systems to validate data, for example setting data types in a spreadsheet to make sure a date is input correctly
selecting and using peripheral devices suitable to the data, for example using a data probe to collect data about changing soil temperatures for plants, interpreting the data and sharing the results as a digital graph
recognising the difference between numerical, text and date formats in spreadsheets
using software to automate calculations to help with interpreting data, for example using functions to make arithmetic calculations using multiple cells and summing cell ranges
acquiring data from online sources by narrowing the focus, for example filtering data using provided options or performing queries using advanced search functions
using data visualisation software to help in interpreting trends, for example uploading data to a web application and building a visualisation of the dataset

General capabilities

Literacy
Numeracy
Critical and creative thinking
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Data representation, Information management, Collation, Data storage

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