Teacher to support students to create informal and formal 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. Teacher encourages students to make links to past experiences and consider the implications for their future learning in technology. Teacher should challenge students to justify their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity for meeting task requirements.

Achievement Objectives

Understand how people’s perceptions and acceptance of technology impact on technological developments and how and why Technological Knowledge becomes codified.

Achievement Objectives

Understand that technological outcomes are fit for purpose in terms of time and context. Understand the concept of malfunction and how “failure” can inform future outcomes.

Indicators

• Understand how context influences people’s perception and acceptance of technological developments (both in terms of practice and technological outcomes) and how this in turn impacts on future developments. For example past ‘solutions’ often become future ‘problems’.
• Understand why and how Technological Knowledge can be coded (for example, codes of practice, codes of ethics, codes of standards, reference tolerances etc) for others’ to ensure consistency, accuracy and efficiency.
• Understand how codified knowledge exists to remind technologists of their responsibilities, including procedures they must follow to fulfill constructional, ethical and/or legal compliance requirements.
• Understand how new materials/tools/techniques and processes and social/political/environmental shifts challenge past codes, and the role and social responsibility technologists have in ensuring these are continually reviewed and updated as appropriate.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand that the fitness for purpose of technological outcomes is judged according to its appropriateness (or not) in time and context.
• Understand the idea of malfunction (single event failure) of technological outcomes and how this differs to reduced functioning of technological outcomes due to use and levels of outcome reliability, efficiency, durability etc.
• Understand the concept of risk as it relates to reducing instances of mal-functioning technological outcomes, and/or increasing levels of outcome robustness.
• Understand that ‘failures’ provide opportunity for deep insights that can greatly benefit future developments and deepen Technological Knowledge.