Year 12 Digital Technology

What is your 12DTEC project for 2022? Complete this form with information about your project.

Driving Question
Technology is ‘intervention by design’ informed by creative thinking, drawing and using digital applications to develop solutions to needs or wants. How will you take advantage of the opportunities this course offers?
digital.school.nz/design

Course outline
The Ministry of Education's aim is for learners to develop broad technological knowledge that will equip them to participate in society as informed citizens & provide a platform for technology related careers.
In this course learners engage in creative thinking to design their own project and use a wide variety of digital technologies to visualise their ideas in order to complete 3 assessments for 11 credits.

Assessments
AS91893 - Use advanced techniques to develop a digital media outcome nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/achievements/as91893.pdf
AS91355 - Select & use planning tools to manage the development of an outcome nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/achievements/as91355.pdf
AS91102 - Construct & deliver a crafted & controlled oral text nzqa.govt.nz/ncea/achievements/as91102.pdf

Assessment ideas suggestions
Do a project your interested in, something that you will enjoy over the course of this year
Challenge yourself to learn new digital technology skills to visualise your project in 2D + 3D + code

Use the creative technology applications on the digital.school.nz/links page
Use Arcade MakeCode to make a game of your project digital.school.nz/arcademakecode
Use Adobe After Effects to make a movie about your project using the project content you create
Use OBS Studio to to make a movie about your project using the project content you create
Use MIT App Inventor to make an app about your project
Learn to use JavaScript or Python to code your project digital.school.nz/computer-science
Learn to use Generative Graphics to code your project digital.school.nz/generative-graphics
Learn about architecture & design an architecture project architect.school & architecture.school
Design a robot project digital.school.nz/robots

Design & Creative Thinking is a key part of technology
There are 12 Creative Thinking design strategies to develop project ideas on this page
digital.school.nz/creative-thinking

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