Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies

Digital Technologies

The Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies includes the essential learning area content that teachers should teach and that we want students to learn. Opportunities to enrich and enhance learning are indicated through general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities.

View the curriculum for Digital Technologies V9.0 for the essential knowledge, skills, procedures and processes for each year level, Foundation to Year 10.

Content in Digital Technologies is organised under 2 related strands:

Knowledge and understanding – the information system components of data and digital systems (hardware, software and networks)

Processes and production skills – the skills needed to create digital solutions. 

The Knowledge and understanding strand comprises 2 sub-strands. One sub-strand focuses on Digital systems and the other on Data representation.

The Processes and production skills strand comprises 7 sub-strands: Acquiring, managing and analysing data; Investigating and defining; Generating and designing; Producing and implementing; Evaluating; Collaborating and managing; and Privacy and security.

For information about this learning area refer to Understand this learning area: Digital Technologies.

Teachers interested in viewing the differences between the previous version of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies 8.4 and the new Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies V9.0 can you download Digital Technologies: Comparative information.

For Australian Curriculum V8.4 refer to Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies (F–10).