ACARA TECHNOLOGY Mind Map

1. General Capabilities

1.1. Literacy

1.2. Numeracy

1.3. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

1.4. Critical and creative thinking (CCT)

1.5. Personal and social capability

1.6. Ethical understanding

1.7. Intercultural undersranding

2. Band levels

2.1. F - 2

2.2. 3 - 4

2.3. 5 - 6

2.4. 7 - 8

2.5. 9 - 10

3. Key Concepts

3.1. Abstraction

3.2. Interactions

3.3. Digital Systems

3.4. Specification

3.5. Data Collection

4. Strands

4.1. Design and technologies Digital technologies

4.1.1. Knowledge and understanding

4.1.2. Process and production skills

5. Curriculum aims and objectives

5.1. Students are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time.

5.2. Students select and manipulate appropriate technologies, resources, materials, date, systems, tools and equipment when designing and creative products, services, environments and digital solutions.

5.3. Students critique and evaluate technology processes to identify and create solutions to a range of problems or opportunities.

5.4. Students investigate, design, plane, manage, create, produce and evaluate technologies solutions.

5.5. Students engage with technologies and make informed and suitable decisions about technologies for preferred futures, Such as: health and wellbeing, recreation, everyday life, the world of work and enterprise, and the environment.

6. Key ideas

6.1. Creating preferred futures

6.2. Thinking in technologies

6.3. Project Management

7. Student diversity

7.1. Gifted and talented students

7.2. English as an additional language or dialect

7.3. Students with disability

8. Cross-curriculum priorities

8.1. Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia

8.2. Sustainability Is featured predominantly across the Technologies Curriculum.

8.3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultues

9. Achievement standards

9.1. F - 2 Students explore materials and technologies through drawing and purposeful and directed play. At this stage they aim to develop positive attitudes in relation to places and resources.

9.2. 3 - 4 Students build and grow experiences of family, school and wider community. They become more independent as we see technologies occur through integrated curriculum.

9.3. 7 - 10 Students begin to question established communities, practices and values. Students skills now revolve around problem solving and developing own ideas. Global perspectives begin to grow.

10. Content elaboration and description

10.1. Content descriptions vary from Foundation to year 10. They set out to describe the knowledge, understandings and skills that students need to attain during the unit of work.

10.2. Content elaborations are different for each year level). Their purpose is to give teachers some guidelines and direction in order to effectively teach concepts.