Aims
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
- investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions
- are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time
- make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in their own lives, the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future
- engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies – tools, equipment, processes, materials, data, systems and components − when designing and creating solutions
- analyse and evaluate needs, opportunities or problems to identify and create solutions.
Structure
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies is presented in 2-year band levels from Year 1 to Year 10, with Prep being presented as a single year.
Technologies comprises 2 subjects:
Design and Technologies, in which students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions to authentic needs and opportunities.
Digital Technologies, in which students use computational thinking and information systems to define, design and implement digital solutions for authentic problems.
Content is organised under 2 related strands:
- Knowledge and Understanding
- Processes and Production Skills.
Further information can be found at the Australian Curriculum website.
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