Australian curriculum technologies

1. The Strands

1.1. Design and technology

1.1.1. Knowledge and understandings

1.1.1.1. Use develop, and impact of technologies in people's lives

1.1.1.2. Design concepts across a range of technological contexts

1.1.2. Process and production (skills)

1.1.2.1. Critiquing, exploring and investigating needs or opportunities

1.1.2.2. Generating, developing and evaluating designed solutions

1.1.2.3. Planning, producing (making) and evaluating designed solutions

1.2. Digital technology

1.2.1. Process and production (skills)

1.2.1.1. collecting, managing and interpreting data when creating information, and the nature and properties of data, how it is collected and interpreted

1.2.1.2. using a range of digital systems and their components and peripherals

1.2.1.3. defining problems and specifying and implementing their solutions

1.2.1.4. creating and communicating information, especially online, and interacting safely using appropriate technical and social protocols

1.2.2. Knowledge and understandings

1.2.2.1. The components of digital systems:software, hardware and networks

1.2.2.2. The use, development and impact of information systems in peoples lives

1.2.2.3. how data are represented and structured symbolically

2. Key ideas of the Technologies learning area

2.1. Systems thinking and the overarching idea: Creating preferred futures

2.2. Project management

3. Cross-curriculum priorities

3.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

3.2. Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

3.3. Sustainability

4. Bands of year levels

4.1. Foundation to Year 2

4.2. Years 3 and 4

4.3. Years 7 and 8

4.4. Years 5 and 6

4.5. Years 9 and 10

5. General caperbilities

5.1. Literacy (LIT)

5.2. Numeracy (NUM)

5.3. Information and communication technology (ICT)

5.4. Critical and creative thinking (CCT)

5.5. Personal and social capability (PSC)

5.6. Ethical understanding (EU)

5.7. Intercultural understanding (ICU)

6. Assessment

6.1. formative assessment classroom - monitoring

6.2. providing feedback to teachers - inform their teaching (students to inform their learning)

6.3. summative assessment - twice yearly reporting (on the progress and achievement of students)