Australian Curriculum: Technologies

1. Strands

1.1. Knowledge and understanding

1.2. Processes and production skills

2. General Capabilities

2.1. Literacy (LIT)

2.2. Numeracy (NUM)

2.3. Information and communication technology (ICT) capability

2.4. Critical and creative thinking (CCT)

2.5. Personal and social capability (PSC)

2.6. Ethical understanding (EU)

2.7. Intercultural understanding (ICU)

3. Cross Curriculum Priorities

3.1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait histories and cultures

3.2. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

3.3. Sustainability

4. Achievement Standards

4.1. The achievement standards identifies the content needed for each achievement level.

5. Links to Other Learning Areas

5.1. English

5.2. Mathematics

5.3. Science

5.4. History

5.5. Geography

5.6. The Arts

5.7. Health and Physical Education

6. Subjects

6.1. Design and Technologies

6.2. Digital Technologies

7. Aims

7.1. Design and Technologies - document design ideas and communicate these to a range of audiences - choose and manipulate a range of materials, components, tools and equipment creatively, competently and safely in the development of designed solutions suitable for a range of technologies contexts - explore, investigate, create and critique innovative, ethical and sustainable designed solutions for preferred futures using a range of technologies - develop confidence as critical users and designers and producers of technologies and designed solutions - understand thew roles and responsibilities of designers, technologies and designed solutions -understand the roles and responsibilities of designers, technologies and those in related occupations

7.2. Digital Technologies - design, create, manage and evaluate sustainable digital solutions - frame problems and create solutions using using computational thinking concepts - use digital systems efficiently and effectively - apply protocols and legal practices that support safe, ethical and respectful communications - monitor, analyse, predict and shape the interactions within and between information systems and the impact on different environments.

8. Content Descriptors

8.1. Design and Technologies

8.2. Digital Technologies

9. Band Levels

9.1. Foundation to year 2

9.2. Years 3 to 4

9.3. Years 5 to 6

9.4. Years 7 to 8

9.5. Years 9 to 10

10. Student Diversity

10.1. Students with disabilities

10.2. English as an additional language or dialect

10.3. Gifted and talented students