Teacher to encourage students to create opportunities throughout learning experiences to share and challenge ideas with others. Teacher should focus formative interactions on encouraging students to be self reflective and critical to ensure they move 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 guide students in selecting examples of technologies/technological development to ensure opportunity for the meeting of AOs.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in historical and contemporary contexts and that Technological Knowledge is validated by successful function.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological outcomes are recognisable as fit for purpose by the relationship between their physical and functional natures.

Indicators

• Understand how historical contexts and environmental locations have impacted on technological development.
• Understand how social influences have impacted on technological development.
• Understand how technological developments have impacted on people and social and physical environments in the past and present.
• Understand that Technological Knowledge is judged to be useful knowledge if it allows for a technological outcome to function as intended.

Indicators

• Explain that the level of fitness for purpose of a technological outcome is determined by the success (or otherwise) of the relationship between its physical and functional nature, and the context in which it is situated.
• Explain that the nature of this relationship is complex and rarely 1-1. That is, for any function there may be a range of physical attributes that are suitable, and that physical attributes may support a range of different functions.
• Explain that technological products and systems are not always exclusive categories but often relate to the way in which we view the technological outcome itself.