Information Processes and Technology

The Information Processes and Technology course, teaches students about information-based systems. It covers the processes of collecting, organising, analysing, storing and retrieving, processing, transmitting and receiving, and displaying, as well as the technologies that support them. With this background, students will be well placed to adapt to new technologies as they emerge.

Information Processes and Technology is designed to enable students to become confident, competent, discriminating and ethical users of information technologies, to possess an understanding of information processes and to appreciate the effect of information systems on society.

Students will develop:

• knowledge and understanding of the nature and function of information systems
• knowledge and understanding of interrelationships among information processes
• an understanding and appreciation of social and ethical issues pertaining to information systems, technologies and processes
• an understanding and appreciation of the emerging nature of information systems, technologies and processes within a historical context
• skills in the discriminatory selection and ethical use of appropriate resources and tools to support information systems
• skills and techniques to creatively and methodically plan, design and implement information systems to address needs
• skills in management, communication and teamwork in relation to individual and group activities.

A syllabus is a document that gives teachers an outline of what students are to be taught in a specific learning area.

The syllabus and other supporting materials for Information Processes and Technology 11-12 are available from the Board of Studies.