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 require students to explain their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity for meeting task requirements, and provide input as necessary.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological outcomes can be interpreted in terms of how they might be used and by whom and that each has a proper function as well as possible alternative functions. .

Indicators

• Understand how technology transforms, transports, controls and/or stores energy, material and/or information in order to expand human capability.
• Understand that expanding human capability results in new possibilities (both positive and negative) for humanity and this brings with it complex and often unanticipated social and environmental impacts.
• Understand the range of knowledge underpinning technological developments, and how the context of the development determines what knowledge is given most value.
• Understand the increasingly multidisciplinary basis of contemporary technology, and the role and value of tacit knowledge gained from past practices/experiences in translating new knowledge into informed and Technological Practice.

Indicators

• Understand how the physical nature of technological outcomes provides clues to interpret their possible purpose, function, and target user.
  understand that the term ‘proper function’ refers to the function for which the technological outcome was designed.
• Understand that technological outcomes may be used successfully by end-users for purposes other than what they were originally designed.