Australian Technologies Curriculum

1. Key Ideas

1.1. Animal ethics

1.2. Information and communication technology in the Australian Curriculum

1.3. Overarching idea: Creating preferred futures

1.4. Project management

1.5. Safety

1.6. Thinking in technologies

1.6.1. Systems thinking

1.6.2. Design thinking

1.6.3. Computational thinking

2. Strands

2.1. Design and Technologies

2.1.1. Knowledge and Understanding

2.1.1.1. Technologies and society

2.1.1.1.1. Use, development and impact in peoples life

2.1.2. Processes and Production Skills

2.1.2.1. Creating designed solutions by:

2.1.2.1.1. Investigating and defining

2.1.2.1.2. Generating and designing

2.1.2.1.3. Producing and implementing

2.1.2.1.4. Evaluating

2.1.2.1.5. Collaborating and managing

2.2. Digital Technologies

2.2.1. Knowledge and Understanding

2.2.1.1. Digital systems

2.2.1.1.1. The components of digital systems: hardware, software and networks and their use

2.2.1.2. Representation of data

2.2.1.2.1. How data is represented and structured symbotically

2.2.2. Processes and Production Skills

2.2.2.1. Collecting, managing and analysing data

2.2.2.1.1. Creating designed solutions by:

3. Student Diversity

3.1. Students with disability

3.2. Gifted and Talented students

3.3. English as an additional language and/or dialect

4. Aims (overarching):

4.1. investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions

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

4.3. make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future

4.4. engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies − materials, data, systems, components, tools and equipment − when designing and creating solutions

4.5. critique, analyse and evaluate problems, needs or opportunities to identify and create solutions.

5. General Capabilities

5.1. Literacy

5.2. Numeracy

5.3. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability

5.4. Critical and Creative Thinking

5.5. Personal and Social Capability

5.6. Ethical Understanding

5.7. Intercultural Understanding

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. Bands

7.1. F-2

7.2. 3-4

7.3. 5-6

7.4. 7-8

7.5. 9-10

8. Australian Curriculum Website: http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/technologies/introduction