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'The New Zealand Curriculum' (2007)

Indicators of Progression in Technology

Components of Nature of Technology

Emergent

Supporting Learning Environment

Teacher to provide opportunities throughout learning experiences for the students’ ideas to be shared as a group and challenged to ensure they are guided towards deeper more sophisticated understandings. Links should also be made to student opportunities to undertake Technological Practice and develop Technological Knowledge – both those in the past and future opportunities. That is, the understandings being developed should be used to reflect on past experiences and consider the implications for their future learning in technology. Teacher should select examples of technologies/technological development that allow for the meeting of AOs and are reflective of student interests.

Characteristics of Technology

Characteristics of Technological Outcomes

Achievement Objectives

  • No AO for emergent.

Achievement Objectives

  • No AO for emergent.

Indicators

  • Yet to be developed.

Indicators

  • Identify the obvious physical attributes of technological outcomes. For example - shape, size, colour, component interconnections etc.
  • Identify the obvious functional attributes of technological outcomes. For example – what the object does/can do.

The Indicators of Progression for the components of Technological Knowledge and Nature of Technology are in draft form and should be used to support discussion and formative assessment only. Updated versions of these Indicators for summative and reporting purposes will be provided in 2010.

Technological Practice Emergent Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8
Nature of Technology Emergent Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8
Technological Knowledge Emergent Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8