Examination Board: Edexcel (Pearson)
What is the aim of the course
Here at The Stephen Longfellow Academy, our KS4 offering for ICT is The Pearson BTEC Tech Award in Digital Information Technology. This course will enable students to develop sector-specific knowledge and skills in a practical learning environment through vocational contexts by studying the knowledge, understanding and skills related to user interface designs, data management, data interpretation, data presentation, data protection and effective use of digital information technology as part of their Key Stage 4 learning. This builds on the learning that has already taken place at Key Stage 3.
What will students’ study in this subject?
Learners of this half term have moved on to Part B of component 1 and are studying the use of project planning techniques to plan and design a user interface. Learners have been investigating different planning tools and design methodologies that can be used to plan, monitor and execute projects. Learners will continue to select suitable project planning techniques to develop a project plan for the development of a user interface for a given brief.
Over the coming terms, Learners will create an initial design for a user interface using the design principles listed in section A3 of Component 1. Learners will then discover how to develop and review a digital user interface, explore how data impacts on individuals and organisations, draw conclusions and make recommendations on data intelligence. Students will be required to develop a dashboard using data manipulation tools, explore how modern information technology is evolving and they must consider the legal and ethical issues in data and information sharing and understand what cyber security is and how to safeguard against it.