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Digital Technologies Stage 2
Subject outline

Version 4.0 - For teaching in 2024.
Accredited in November 2016 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2019.

Stage 2 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Critical and creative thinking

Critical and creative thinking

In this subject students extend and apply their critical and creative thinking capability by, for example:

  • visualising possibilities and scoping solutions
  • using computational thinking skills to analyse and evaluate data, and make predictions and decisions
  • identifying and deconstructing problems of interest
  • using abstraction to deconstruct problems
  • exploring and testing hypotheses using design‑related investigations
  • using initiative in designing projects and solutions
  • critically evaluating existing and proposed digital solutions
  • thinking creatively about ways of working collaboratively to design digital solutions
  • designing innovative, creative, and appropriate digital solutions using agile practices
  • applying programming as a creative tool.