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 challenges students as they make links to past experiences and as they critically 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 ensure student’s choice of other learning during the year will allow them to achieve in technology at this level For example, specific sciences and arts subjects are chosen as relevant to their technology programme focus.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand the implications of ongoing contestation and competing priorities for complex and innovative decision making in technological development.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand that technological outcomes are a resolution of form and function priorities and that malfunction affects how people view and accept outcomes.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand technology as a field of on-going contestation and competing priorities that require resolution through complex decision making and balancing of resources.
• Understand the effects of critical evaluation, informed creativity and boundary pushing on innovation and ‘alternative’ technological developments.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand technological outcomes are the result of design prioritisation decisions as based on what is deemed of most value and/or perceived to be acceptable for the target market. These priorities are enacted through embedding them in the brief specifications that drive the development.
• Understand that many contemporary design decisions are ‘hidden’ from users and therefore difficult to establish without an informed and critical analysis.
• Understand the implications of malfunctioning technological outcomes on technology and society (for example, public perception and acceptance of linked, perceived-to-be similar, or innovative technological outcomes and how these impact on perceptions of risk).