Supporting Learning Environment

Teacher to support students to create informal and formal opportunities throughout learning experiences to share and challenge ideas with a range of others inside and outside of the school environment. Teacher should focus formative interactions on encouraging students to be self reflective and critical to ensure they move towards deeper more sophisticated understandings. Teacher supports students as they 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, and encourage links between other related curriculum areas to support deeper understandings.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand the interdisciplinary Nature of Technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities through collaborative practice.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system. Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people’s views of themselves and possible futures.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand the reasons for the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge underpinning technology – both within and across technology/other disciplines.
• Understand the implications of the interdisciplinary base of technology for establishing collaborative practice which can capitalise on difference to support innovative and increasingly sustainable technological developments.
• Understand intellectual property in the context of technological development and how this is worked through, (or not) in collaborative ventures to enhance or stifle technological development.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand the interconnectedness of some technological products and systems and the often ‘fluid’ boundaries between them.
• Understand that no technological outcome operates in isolation from other technologies and/or aspects of society and developing an understanding of how things interconnect allows the development of a holistic rather than reductionist view of the world.
• Understand the implications of previous technological outcomes on technology and society (for example, public perception and acceptance of linked or perceived-to-be similar technological outcomes).