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 negotiate the selection of examples of technologies/technological development with the students to allow for the meeting of AOs.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and the environment and increases people’s capability.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological outcomes are developed through Technological Practice and have related physical and functional natures.

Indicators

• Understand that technology reflects society, with people in differing societies and/or global locations developing technologies according to varying needs and desires.
• Understand that technologies of the past and present impact on people at an individual and collective level, and both constrain and enable what future technologies can be developed.
• Understand that technology can enable and/or enhance people’s abilities/possibilities. That is, it can enhance their capability to manipulate, store, transport, and control things.
• Understand that informed creativity and critical reflection are required by technologists in order to design technological outcomes within boundaries and constraints of the context of their development and/or place of function.

Indicators

• Explain that technological outcomes exist because people have undertaken Technological Practice to determine what is needed/wanted, explored ways in which solutions/resolutions may be arrived at, and proceeded to create outcomes as deemed appropriate.
• Describe technological outcomes as technological products or systems.
• Describe the interrelationship between the physical attributes of a technological outcome and its functional attributes.
• Describe how technological outcomes both enhance and limit (often at the same time) our ability to ‘see’ things and can result in fundamentally different ways of viewing and/or thinking about the world and ourselves.