Digital Media Knowledge Standard Level 2

Knowledge of digital media focuses on understanding of concepts of digital media that need to be considered when developing digital media outcomes. Initially students learn about basic concepts of digital media. These basic concepts include such things as the media types, software resources, and techniques used to create digital media outcomes. They also include such things as influence of design elements, communication purpose, and ethics are considered when developing digital media outcomes. Students progress to learning about complex concepts of digital media such as those tools and techniques used to present content across multiple outcomes, application of digital media standards and conventions, asset management, file management, naming conventions, and legal, ethical, and moral considerations in relation to the requirements of digital media outcome within the wider community.

Level 7

Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts in digital media
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

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.

Assessment:
AS91369 Digital Technologies 2.42
Demonstrate understanding of advanced concepts of digital media

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