Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Cross-curriculum Priorities

1.1. Aboriginal and Torress Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

1.2. Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia

1.3. Sustainability

2. Subjects

2.1. Design and Technologies

2.2. Digital Technologies

3. D+T Strands

3.1. Knowledge and Understanding

3.2. Processes and Production Skills

4. Student Diversity

4.1. Students with Disability

4.2. English as an Additional Language or Dialect

4.3. Gifted and Talented Students

5. D+T Content Descriptors

5.1. Engineering Principles and Systems

5.2. Food and Fibre Production

5.3. Materials and Technologies Specialisations

5.4. Investigating and Defining

5.5. Designing

5.6. Producing and Implementing

5.7. Evaluating

5.8. Collaborating and Managing

6. D+T Sub-Strands

6.1. Technologies and Society

6.2. Technologies Contexts

6.3. Creating Solutions By

7. General Capabilities

7.1. Literacy

7.2. Numeracy

7.3. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

7.4. Critical and Creative Thinking

7.5. Personal and Social

7.6. Ethical Understanding

7.7. Intercultural Understanding

8. Aim and Objectives

8.1. D+T

8.1.1. produce design solutions for differing contexts

8.1.2. understand roles and responsibilities of people in relevant occupations

8.2. Digital

8.2.1. use computational thinking and key abstraction concepts

8.2.2. use digital systems to transform data and communicate creatively

8.2.3. apply thinking to monitor, analyse, predict and shape interactions and understand the impact of these systems

9. Key Ideas

9.1. Overview= Society requires individuals who can apply their understanding of technology to develop solutions to complex challenges and contribute to sustainable living

9.1.1. D+T

9.1.1.1. Technologies are ana essential problem-solving toolset in our knowledge-based society

9.1.1.2. Students develop skills in managing projects, independently and collaboratively, from conception to realisation

9.1.2. Digital

9.1.2.1. Student need to be provided with practical ways to use design and technological thinking strategies to be creative and discerning decision-makers

9.1.2.2. Technologies allow students to become innovative creators of digital solutions, users of digital systems and critical consumers of digital information

10. Digital Strands

10.1. Knowledge and Understanding

10.2. Processes and Production Skills

11. Digital Sub-Strands

11.1. Digital Systems

11.2. Representation of Data

11.3. Collecting, Managing and analysing Data

11.4. Digital Implementation

11.5. Creating Solutions By

12. Digital Content Descriptors

12.1. Investigating and Defining

12.2. Designing

12.3. Producing and Implementing

12.4. Producing and Implementing

12.5. Evaluating

12.6. Collaborating and Managing

13. Cross-curriculum Priorities

13.1. Aboriginal and Torress Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

13.2. Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia

13.3. Sustainability

14. General Capabilities

14.1. Literacy

14.2. Numeracy

14.3. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

14.4. Critical and Creative Thinking

14.5. Personal and Social

14.6. Ethical Understanding

14.7. Intercultural Understanding