Digital Technologies at Raglan Area School

Welcome to Digital Technologies

Digital technologies are the digital devices, systems, software, and resources that people use to create, store, use, and manage anything digital.

 They are  transforming how we live and are in every aspect of our lives; shaping our homes and our workplaces, changing the way that we interact with each other, allowing access to huge amount of information and entertainment, solving complex problems, and offering new ways to live our everyday lives. As a young person you've been born straight into this digital world!

Digital Technologies at Raglan Area School is all about supporting young people to develop the knowledge, confidence, and skills not only to use digital technologies but to understand, design, and build digital solutions

Learning Digital Technologies

Digital Technologies teaches two key technological areas, computational thinking, and designing and developing digital outcomes. 

Computational thinking​

Understanding the science, technology, and processes that lie behind digital technologies

How we can instruct computers what to do (programming)

How we can apply this knowledge

Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes

Solving real-world problems (needs, issues, or opportunities)

Using Digital Technologies for designing and developing quality, fit-for-purpose (and cool) digital solutions to these problems