Looking back at week one curriculum focus

Looking back at week one and the curriculum links provided on moodle, I watched a video provided there

Video: Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2015

I found this video interesting and very educational. It broke down key ideas from the curriculum in language easier to understand and adapt rather than reading the Curriculum text.

Key ideas I gathered from this video are as follows:
Words such as: Systems thinking, Computational thinking, knowledge and understanding strand, Processes and Production Skills strand, Digital systems, representation of data, abstraction and data

• Every aspect of life is heading towards digitalisation
• It is important to learn digital technologies to keep up with society
• The curriculum is based on a framework of thinking
• Computational thinking is a problem solving methodology
• Teachers work holistically and the Digital Technologies Curriculum allows integration across all learning areas
• Every student in their future and present will require basic computer skills to survive the ever evolving technological world, environment, society and the job force.
• Transferable knowledge and skills across all areas to when they leave school 

References

Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority: Technologies. (2015). Overview: Rationale. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/rationale