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Home automation: General purpose programming

Investigate home automation systems, including those powered by artificial intelligence (AI) with speech recognition capability. These suggested activities for year levels 7-8 are designed for students using general purpose programming languages JavaScript and Python, with similar content to the visual coding lesson Home automation programming for year levels 5-6.

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Year band(s) 7-8
Content type Lesson ideas
Format Web page
Core and overarching concepts Digital systems, Data representation, Abstraction, Specification (decomposing problems), Algorithms, Implementation (programming)
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)
AC9TDI8K04   

Explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary

AC9TDI8P11   

Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently, including unfamiliar features, to create, locate and communicate content, consistently applying common conventions

AC9TDI8P12   

Select and use a range of digital tools efficiently and responsibly to share content online, and plan and manage individual and collaborative agile projects

AC9TDI8P05   

Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode

AC9TDI8P06   

Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors

AC9TDI8P04   

Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories

AC9TDI8P07   

Design the user experience of a digital system

AC9TDI8P08   

Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs

AC9TDI8P09   

Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language

AC9TDI8P10   

Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact
Technologies & Programming Language​s Artificial Intelligence
Keywords Artificial Intelligence, AI, artificial, intelligence, teachable machine, smart phone, algorithms, problem solving, digital systems, Javascript, Python, Tinker, Lesson idea, Lesson plan, Digital Technologies Institute, home automation
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