App LibraryThe Victorian Curriculum F–10 sets out what every student should learn during their first eleven years of schooling. The curriculum is the common set of knowledge and skills required by students for life-long learning, social development and active and informed citizenship.
The typing related content descriptors and elaborations of the Victorian (Vic) Curriculum focus mostly on keyboard awareness. Underlying them is the assumption that students can type effectively. The assumption is that these outcomes are achieved through the teaching of touch typing.
Actual references to keyboarding and touch typing in the Victorian (Vic) Curriculum
VCELY163
Construct texts using software including word processing programs
Elaborations
- using simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu
VCELY163 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Writing | Literacy
VCELA037
Recognise and attend to images in texts and on the screen
Elaborations
- touching a switch, keyboard or touchscreen to cause something to happen
VCELA037 | Curriculum content | English | Level B | Reading and Viewing | Language
VCDTDS007
Initiate some basic functions on common digital systems (hardware and software components) to meet a purpose
Elaborations
- exploring various digital systems to operate a program, for example using a keyboard to type, a mouse or stylus to draw and using appropriate pressure to activate a key
VCDTDS007 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Level C | Digital Systems
VCELA142
Understand concepts about print and screen, including how books, film and simple digital texts work, and know some features of print, including directionality
Elaborations
- learning about simple functions of keyboard and mouse including typing letters, scrolling, selecting icons and drop-down menu
VCELA142 | Curriculum content | English | Foundation Level | Reading and Viewing | Language
VCDTDS019
Explore a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data
Elaborations
- experimenting with different types of digital system components and peripheral devices to perform input, output and storage functions, for example, a keyboard, stylus, touch screen, switch scan device or joystick to input instructions; a monitor, printer or tablet to display information; or a USB flash drive and external hard drive as storage peripheral devices
VCDTDS019 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Digital Systems
VCDTDS013
Identify and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose
Elaborations
- exploring and identifying hardware and software components of digital systems when creating ideas and information, for example experimenting with different ways of providing instructions to games software using a mouse, touch pad, touch screen, keyboard, stylus
VCDTDS013 | Technologies | Digital Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Digital Systems
