Understanding of the Australian Technologies Curriculum (ACARA, 2013) and the Western Australian ...

1. Processes and production skills: - Critiquing, exploring and investigating needs or opportunities - Generating, developing and evaluating design ideas for designed solutions - Planning, producing (making) and evaluating designed solutions

2. Knowledge and understanding: - The use, development and impact of technologies in people’s lives - Design concepts across a range of technologies contexts

3. Design & Technonogies

4. DTM4260 Materials Design and Technology. LEARNING TASK 1. Click on links, speech bubbles and images for more information.

5. Student Diversity: Throughout the entire Australian and Western Australian Curriculum all students are entitled to the proper and relevant learning programs no matter their race, disability or language barrier. The learning needs of gifted and talented students are also assisted by providing opportunities for learning content to be in greater depth. This encourages a higher level of creative thinking.

6. Cross-curriculum priorities: Priority is given to all students to assist in the understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures by engaging students with learning contexts that explore Technologies in the past, present and future. The Technologies Curriculum priority with Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia is implemented by providing varied and relevant contexts to support the diverse environments of the Asian region. Supporting students by providing knowledge and understanding of how to be creative with solutions, working with others and how technologies used in a sustainable way for the modern world.

7. General capabilities: In order for students to be successful with their education, life and work in the modern society, they will be guided through by using their knowledge, skills, behavior and dispositions through six areas of general capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology, Critical and Creative thinking, Personal and social capacity, Ethical understanding, Intercultural understanding. Opportunities can be provided and incorporated into learning programs for Technologies and assessed accordingly.

8. Teacher resources: Socritive https://www.socrative.com/ George the Farmer https://www.georgethefarmer.com.au/create-and-learn/?id=13

9. Knowledge and understanding: - How data are represented and structured symbolically - The components of digital systems: software, hardware and networks - The use, development and impact of information systems in people’s lives.

10. Digital Technologies

10.1. Processes and production skills: - Collecting, managing and interpreting data when creating information, and the nature and properties of data, how it is collected and interpreted - Using a range of digital systems and their components and peripherals - Defining problems and specifying and implementing their solutions • Creating and communicating information, especially online, and interacting safely using appropriate technical and social protocols

11. Achievement standards: In each year of education the key words used throughout the Western Australian and Australian Curriculum change. This gives an indication of what achievement standards should be met by the student. Key words: F - 2 - Identify, Years 3- 4 - Recognize, Years 5 - 6 Examine, Years 7- 8 Investigate, years 9 - 10 Critically.

12. CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE Differences between the Australian Curriculum (ACARA) and the Western Australian Syllabus K - 10.

13. CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE Links between other learning areas and STEM/STEAM:

14. Aims: The Technologies Curriculum is divided into two subjects: Design and Technology and Digital Technologies. The overarching aim for both of these subjects are to ensure that all students develop knowledge and understanding individually and as a team. To ensure students develop these skills, they need to be guided through the process of: Investigating , designing, managing and be able to evaluate solutions. The Technologies Curriculum also assists students in understanding traditional and contemporary technologies, how technologies impacts on society and the ethical responsibility of this.