Learning and assessment focus

Students explore the role of technology in society from a range of perspectives. They use their imagination and creativity to develop design solutions and make design and production decisions that demonstrate consideration of the context, specifications, constraints and management requirements. They understand how information, materials and systems can be combined in innovative ways in response to real-world situations. They understand the importance of matching characteristics of resources to detailed specifications and standards. They investigate the contributions, past and present, of technological processes and products within local, national and global markets. They recognise that technology has a rich history and has developed into a large number of increasingly overlapping fields that provide career opportunities.
Students use the essential processes of Ways of working to develop and demonstrate their Knowledge and understanding. When thinking and working technologically, they individually and collaboratively select tools and implement techniques to manipulate and process, and control and manage, information, materials and/or systems components. They make products to detailed specifications and standards. They analyse the role of technology and its impacts and consequences for people, their environments and their communities in local and global contexts. They reflect on their learning and evaluate the suitability of their own and others’ products and processes and recommend improvements.
Students select and use a range of tools and technologies, including information communication technologies (ICTs). They routinely demonstrate an autonomous and purposeful use of ICTs to inquire, create and communicate within technology contexts.
Students demonstrate evidence of their learning over time in relation to the following assessable elements:
• knowledge and understanding
• investigating and designing
• producing
• evaluating
• reflecting.