Digital Technology

This year will see the completion of the unit 2 section.  You will:

• Interrogate data, within a spreadsheet to find outcomes.  These outcomes will assist you, to decide on the content of a Maze game you are to create
• Use the results from the interrogation to create your game.  You will use Game Maker software to design Sprits (characters), backgrounds and program the controls, difficulty, scores, enemies, lives count and winning / lose screens etc
• Host all the work and evidence of your products in a website, you make in dreamweaver software

There will also be elements of theory unit 1 specification, embedded in the year 9 SOW, to practice exam questions and build the knowledge for the examination in year 10. 

This year will see the continuation of the unit 1 theory, from Year 9 and the completion of the unit 3 section.  You will:

• By the end of the year, completed many theory topics and subsequent examinations to embed the examination skills and knowledge.  
• Analyse social media, the benefits and draw backs, and marketing.  From a given content, you will create a campaign advertising via digital communication mediums.

At GCSE, we follow the WJEC specification. Information and the full specification can be found here.  You will learn:

Unit 1 (40% of final grade)

The Digital World 

On-screen examination: 1 hour 30 minutes – 80 marks

Units consist of: 

• Digital technology systems
• The value of digital technology
• Perspectives on digital technology

Areas of content: 

• Data 
• Digital Technology Systems 
• Digital Communications
• Impact of digital systems on organisations and individuals
• Securing data and systems
• Changing digital technologies 

Unit 2 (40% of final grade)

Digital Practices
Non-exam assessment: 45 hours – 80 marks 

Units consist of: 

• Interrogating spreadsheet data
• Data – informed digital products

Areas of content: 

• Data organisation
• Data analytics
• Planning digital products
• Developing digital products
• Evaluating digital products

Unit 3 (20% of final grade)

Communicating in the digital world

Non-exam assessment: 15 hours – 60 marks 

Units consist of: 

• Social media and online marketing communications
• Creating digital assets and planning digital communications

Areas of content: 

• Forms of online marketing communications
• Impact of online marketing communications
• Creating digital assets
• Planning digital communications
• Evaluating digital products

For Year 11, we will be following the BTEC Level 3 Qualification.  Information the full specification can be found here.

We will be continuing the BTEC level 3 Qualification from Year 11.  Information and the full specification can be found here.

For Digital Technology GCSE students, an alternate path of Digital Technology GCE can be chosen.  For information and the full specification can be found here.