Technologies Curriculum

1. Digital Technologies - Content Descriptors

1.1. Knowledge and Understandings

1.1.1. How data and represented and structured

1.1.2. Components of digital systems

1.2. Processes and Productions Skills

1.2.1. Collect, manage and interpret data

1.2.2. use a range of digital systems

1.2.3. define problems and implement solutions

1.2.4. Create and communicate information online appropriately and safely

2. Design and Technologies - Content Descriptors

2.1. Knowledge and Understanding

2.1.1. The use, development and impact of technology on peoples lives

2.1.2. Design concepts across a range of contexts

2.2. Processes and Production Skills

2.2.1. Critiquing, exploring and investigating needs

2.2.2. Generating, developing and evaluating ideas

2.2.3. planning and producing design solutions

3. Strands

3.1. KU - Knowledge and Understandings

3.2. PPS - Processes and Production Skills

4. Bands

4.1. Foundation - 2

4.2. Years 3 + 4

4.3. Years 5 + 6

4.4. Years 7 + 8

4.5. Years 9 + 10

5. Key Ideas of the Curriculum

5.1. Systems Thinking = Develop the skill to analyse systems to see how all individual components influence as a whole.

5.2. Creating Preferred Futures = Meeting current technology needs without compromising future generations

5.3. Project Management = Explicit teaching of how to plan, evaluate and execute across all areas of a project

6. Cross Curricular Priorities

6.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

6.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

6.3. Sustainability

7. Curriculum Objectives

7.1. To develop the capacity and critical appreciation for technologies. How and why were they developed? and how can they better enrich the society?

7.2. To Consolidate their knowledge, attitudes and values towards creating, evaluating and providing sustainable technology powered lives

8. Curriculum Aims

8.1. Understand and appreciate how technology has progressed over time

8.2. Make appropriate technology selections for various uses

8.3. Critique an evaluate technologies

8.4. Investigate, plan and execute designs regarding technologies

8.5. Engage confidently with all aspects

8.6. Make informed, ethical and sustainable decisions about technologies that will impact and influence current and future generatons.

9. General Capabilities

9.1. Literacy

9.2. Numeracy

9.3. ICT

9.4. Personal & Social capabilities

9.5. Ethical Understandings

9.6. Intercultural Understandings