Technologies
by Daniel Bryce
1. Curriculum aims and objectives: Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
1.1. • are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time
1.2. • effectively and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies, resources, materials, data, systems, tools and equipment when designing and creating products, services, environments and digital solutions
1.3. • critique and evaluate technologies processes to identify and create solutions to a range of problems or opportunities
1.4. • investigate, design, plan, manage, create, produce and evaluate technologies solutions
1.5. • engage confidently with technologies and make informed, ethical and sustainable decisions about technologies for preferred futures including personal health and wellbeing, recreation, everyday life, the world of work and enterprise, and the environment.
2. Subjects
2.1. Design and Technologies
2.2. Digital Technologies
3. General capabilities
3.1. Literacy (LIT)
3.2. Numeracy (NUM)
3.3. Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
3.4. Critical and creative thinking (CCT)
3.5. Personal and social capability (PSC)
3.6. Ethical understanding (EU)
3.7. Intercultural understanding (ICU).
4. Cross-curriculum priorities
4.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
4.2. Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia
4.3. Sustainability.
5. Achievement standards
5.1. Across Foundation to Year 10, achievement standards indicate the quality of learning that students should typically demonstrate by a particular point in their schooling.
6. References: The information within this mind map was taken from the Draft Australian Curriculum: Technologies: http://blackboard.ecu.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-3022627-dt-content-rid-2864463_1/courses/DTM4260.2014.0.OFFCAMPUS/Draft%20Australian%20Curriculum%20Technologies%20-%20February%202013.pdf
7. Key ideas
7.1. Systems thinking and the overarching idea: Creating preferred futures
7.2. Project management
8. Student diversity
8.1. Students with disability
8.1.1. Students must be provided adequate opportunities to achieve learning goals and standards. Adjustments need to be made in the way these students are taught and in the way they can demonstrate their learning.
8.2. English as an additional language
8.2.1. These students are required to achieve the same aims as other students. Additional time and support, along with explicit teaching, may be needed for EAL students to achieve this.
8.3. Gifted and talented students
8.3.1. Teachers must provide students with opportunities to work with learning area content in more depth or breadth
9. Content descriptions
9.1. There are content descriptors for each band level which describe what knowledge needs to be taught and learnt.
10. Content elaboration
10.1. Content elaborations are provided as guidelines for support material. It is not necessary for these to be learnt by all students.
11. Band levels
11.1. Foundation to Year 2
11.1.1. test 2