Key messages for teachers
Digital Technologies AS91369
2.42: Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts of digital media
Step-ups from Level 1 to Level 2
Level 1:Demonstrate understanding of basic concepts in digital media
Level 2: Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in digital media
Key messages from the Curriculum
Learning Objective: Knowledge of Digital Media
At level 7: Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in digital media
Indicators
Students can:
• discuss why advanced tools and techniques have been used to create, edit and integrate digital media outcomes and how
their use have enhanced the outcome.
• explain the digital media standards and conventions used to produce digital media outcomes, and discuss the positive and
negative implications of adhering to these standards and conventions when developing digital media outcomes.
• explain how asset management and file management are applied in the development of digital media outcomes, and
discuss the importance of effective and appropriate asset management and file management in the development of digital
media outcomes.
• explain legal, ethical and moral considerations in relation to the requirements of digital media outcomes in the wider
community.
• explain the data integrity and testing procedures used to ensure a digital media outcome meets the specifications, and
how they were applied.
• discuss the importance of appropriate data integrity and testing procedures in the development of digital media outcomes.
• evaluate how the application of advanced tools, techniques, standards and conventions affect the quality of digital media
outcomes.
• discuss the relationship between standards and conventions, and legal, ethical and moral considerations in relation to the
requirements of digital media outcomes.
Teacher guidance
To support students to develop understandings about the advanced concepts in digital media at level 7, teachers could:
• Provide students with the opportunity to explore a range of digital media outcomes.
• Ensure the digital media outcomes students investigate demonstrate an integration of media types and are of sufficient
rigour for this level (see indicators below).
• Provide opportunity for students to explain how advanced tools and techniques have been used to create digital media
outcomes.
• Provide opportunity for students to discuss the implications of adhering to digital media standards and conventions whilst
developing digital media outcomes.
• Provide opportunity for students to discuss the importance of asset management and file management whilst developing
digital media outcomes.
• Guide students to consider the legal, ethical, and moral responsibilities to the wider community when developing digital
media outcomes.
• Guide students to understand the importance of appropriate data integrity and testing procedures whilst developing digital
media outcomes.
• Support students to develop literacy strategies that assist them to write reports in a way that will allow them to identify,
describe, explain, and discuss.
October 2012. Prepared by Malcolm Howard, Regional Technology Facilitator, Team Solutions, University of Auckland.
The Key Messages for Teachers resource has been developed in 2012 by the Ministry of Education’s Senior Secondary Technology
PLD Coordinators and Facilitators to deliver the national perspective on the NCEA Alignment project and the revised and new standards.
For all Key Messages documents, see: www.techlink.org.nz/Teacher_Education/In-service/PD-support/Senior-Secondary/Key-Messages
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Key messages from the standard
This standard is about analysing digital media outcomes and is not about creating a digital media outcome. However within a
programme of work it is possible to link this knowledge standard (advanced concepts of digital media) with a skills standard
where students get credit for creating a digital media outcome.
Teachers need to provide opportunities for students to explore a range of digital media outcomes. This might be by making
case studies available, by inviting guest speakers to present a digital media outcome, or by class discussions analysing digital
media outcomes.
Teachers need to ensure that the digital media outcomes investigated are suitably ‘advanced’ in nature. One aspect that
determines the digital media outcome is suitable for use at Level 2 is that it has been developed using advanced tools and
techniques as outlined in Explanatory Note 3. However this is not an exhaustive list of advanced tools and techniques so
teachers need to use their own professional judgement.
Outcomes is plural so students are expected to investigate at least two digital media outcomes. One of these outcomes may
be their own if they wish or they can use two outcomes developed by professionals.
Teachers need to encourage students to explore the importance of effective and appropriate asset management, file
management and naming and other standards and conventions used in digital media.
A key requirement is to demonstrate understanding of digital media standards and conventions. Teachers need to guide
students to understand what the standards and conventions are for the particular digital media area being analysed, such as
naming conventions, code commenting, resolution, video format etc
Teachers need to ensure students understand the language in the standard associated with assessment as well as the
specialist language related to digital media. Students obviously need to understand the specialist words such as digital
media standards and conventions. But in addition they must understand the words used to describe the level of expected
performance at each achievement grade; ie explain for achieved, discuss for merit, and evaluate and discuss for excellence.
Teachers need to ensure students know how to present their evidence that covers everything asked for in the standard. This
evidence will be presented in a form negotiated with the teacher, produced in any media that clearly communicates the
student’s understanding of advanced concepts of digital media
Other sources of information
Senior secondary teaching and learning guide for technology
http://seniorsecondary.tki.org.nz/Technology
October 2012. Prepared by Malcolm Howard, Regional Technology Facilitator, Team Solutions, University of Auckland.
The Key Messages for Teachers resource has been developed in 2012 by the Ministry of Education’s Senior Secondary Technology
PLD Coordinators and Facilitators to deliver the national perspective on the NCEA Alignment project and the revised and new standards.
For all Key Messages documents, see: www.techlink.org.nz/Teacher_Education/In-service/PD-support/Senior-Secondary/Key-Messages
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