Diploma in Digital Applications - Level 1

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Edexcel qualifications in Digital Applications for IT Users is an exciting and motivating qualification focusing on ICT as a powerful tool for real life. DiDA is a revolutionary diploma which aims to:
• promote the use of digital applications for achieving a goal, rather than just for their own sake,
• create confident users of digital applications, able to apply their skills purposefully and effectively
• • enhance students’ creativity and communication skills
• • develop students’ project management skills
• • encourage students to reflect critically on their own and others’ use of digital applications
With new media playing an increasingly important part in our everyday lives, skills in digital applications provide a wide range of career options, as well as a route into further or higher education. you will be studying four units:
• Unit 1: Using ICT
• Unit 2: Multimedia
• Unit 3: Graphics
• Unit 4: ICT and Enterprise
You will learn how to choose between sources of information, carry out effective searches, judge the quality and reliability of the information you find and be selective about what you use. You will also learn how to gather and analyse data to produce meaningful information and how to store and handle structured data. Once you are able to produce meaningful information, you will need to communicate it to others using appropriate methods. You will learn how to create effective paper-based publications such as reports and posters and screen-based publications such as presentations and websites.
You will demonstrate your ability to use ICT effectively to plan, research, analyse and present information through your work on a major project set by Edexcel.
You will learn how to produce your own eportfolio to display your achievements and provide evidence of your competence. The project brief will state what you must submit in your eportfolio.