On this page http://www.techlink.org.nz/curriculum-support/tks/index.htm there is a link to a pdf file "Technological Context Knowledge and Skills"

Although the document covers "all" Technology, the first half is Digital technologies.

The expert panel said in its report that while the subject didn't properly belong in Technology, it was expedient to leave it there.
(There is a link to the Outcomes further down the page)

And certainly, the proposed body of knowledge for the strand I am most passionate about, Progamming and Computer Science, is not compromised. I am bowled over by how the strand has grown into the subject it always should have been - and my Congratulations to all those involved.

The tradition has arisen in NZ, that schools teach "what they can" in a broad subject "Computing". With the future advent of Achievement Standards, the subject has the facility to be lifted enormously in its academic status (Technology has had a bit of a fight to be accepted by Universities for example) Whilst this is a great thing for the subject it poses many challenges in impelementation. (Which are acknowledged in the DTEP report)

The original message sent by Niall Dinning invites feedback.

Please send responses to this paper and the questions above to feedback@teched.net.nz by 4 pm 25 August 2009.
For any general enquiries about technology education please contact
Niall Dinning, National Coordinator Technology Education, 07 333 1551,
niall@teched.net.nz.

If you can squeeze the time to read the document and report back how you see it, that should surely inform how it is implemented and maybe highlight challenges/advantages/issues not yet considered.

Margot