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.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technology is purposeful intervention through design.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical nature and a functional nature.

Indicators

• Understand the purpose of technology is to meet people’s needs and or desires in ways which intervene in the world.
• Understand the nature of this intervention is to ‘improve’ life by addressing people’s needs or providing new opportunities, while also understanding that what may improve one person’s, or group of people’s, life may negatively impact on others.
• Understand the intentional Nature of Technology where technological outcomes are designed through planned and purposeful practices.

Indicators

• Explain that technological outcomes are things that are designed and made by people and therefore are different to other material things that exist in the world.
• Describe technological outcomes in terms of their physical attributes. For example - shape, size, colour, material composition, component interconnections etc.
• Describe technological outcomes in terms of their functional attributes. For example –what the outcome can do and/or provides or cannot do and/or provide.