1. Key Concepts/Ideas
1.1. Systems thinking and the overarching idea: Creating preferred futures
1.2. Project management
2. General Capabilties
2.1. Literacy
2.2. Numeracy
2.3. Information and Communication Technology
2.4. Critical and Creative thinking
2.5. Personal and social capability
2.6. Ethical Understanding
2.7. Intercultural Understanding
3. Student Diversity
3.1. Students with Disability
3.1.1. Using Extended General Capabilities learning continua
3.2. English as an Additional Language or Dialect
3.2.1. Technologies are the same for all students
3.3. Gifted and talented students
3.3.1. Higher-order cognitive skills and critical thinking
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. Content Descriptions/ Elaboration
5.1. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies includes content descriptions at each band level. These describe the knowledge, understanding and skills that teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.
6. Aims and Objectives
6.1. Using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies in creative and innovative ways.
6.2. Understand how technologies have developed and changed over time.
6.3. Select and manipulate appropriate technologies to solve problems.
6.4. Using selected technologies to find digital solutions.
6.5. Investigate, produce and evaluate technologies solutions.
6.6. Engage with technologies with confidence through making decisions that make our lives easier.
7. Subjects/Strands
7.1. Knowledge and understanding.
7.1.1. Design and Technologies
7.1.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
7.1.1.1.1. Technologies in people's lives.
7.1.1.1.2. Range of design concepts.
7.1.1.2. Processes and Production skills
7.1.1.2.1. Investigating needs and opportunities.
7.1.1.2.2. Design ideas for designed solutions.
7.1.1.2.3. Planning, producing and evaluating designed solutions.
7.2. Processes and Production Skills
7.2.1. Digital Technologies
7.2.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding
7.2.1.1.1. Data representation and structure
7.2.1.1.2. Components of digital systems
7.2.1.1.3. Development and impact in peoples lives
7.2.1.2. Processes and Production skills
7.2.1.2.1. Managing and interpreting data
7.2.1.2.2. Using a range of digital systems
7.2.1.2.3. Defining problems and seeking solutions
7.2.1.2.4. Creating and communicating information