St Peter’s School (Cambridge)
Year 11 - Digital Technology
Course Description
Students will work with real world stakeholders to embark on a large year long project to create a purpose build website through a collaborative design and development cycle.
Students will complete the following tasks during this project:
- Project inquiry - students will investigate a variety of ways to complete the task including user experience methodologies, stakeholder interview and existing media investigation
- Design of the digital media outcome - students will create a range of conceptual designs and through a collaborative design process refine this down to one final design
- Development and documentation - these are two separate units which run side by side. They involve creating a digital media project and documenting the testing and trialing process.
- Programming and hardware modules - Students will undertake smaller modules more aligned with the IB course. Modules will cover coding in Java, Hardware, and networks.
Course specific software: Visual Studio Code, Figma.
Pre-requisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Course Specific Costs
$10 (approximately) - for printing costs if needed as part of their NCEA external assessments
$40 - Students may purchase a year’s subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud to put on their own laptop
Pathway
Computer science can be studied at university. It can lead to jobs such as: web architect, business analyst, software developer, network architect, computer animator, mobile app master, data miner, or usability architect.
Disclaimer
Specific course content may change from what has been advertised in order to remain current and meet students' needs.
The school has the right to make the best decision based on both staffing, and overall student interest, when preparing the final timetable.
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