Supporting Learning Environment

Teacher to challenge students to ensure they access diverse and critical feedback throughout their learning experiences. 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 critically critique their past experiences and as they critically consider the implications for their future learning in way which support increasingly innovative practices. Teacher should challenge students to justify their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity to surpass and/or extend the requirements of the set task 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 technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown, intended and unintended.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how technological outcomes can be interpreted and justified as fit for purpose in their historical, cultural, social, and geographical locations.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand how technological outcomes can ‘challenge’ people’s views of what it is to be ‘human’. For example the current challenges of Artificial Intelligence developments).
• Understand the consequences on society of unknown and unintended consequences of technological developments and how this relates to risk mitigation and risk management.
• Understand Technological Knowledge as a social construct with a functional epistemology.

Indicators

Students:

• Understand technological outcomes as socio-cultural artifacts. That is, entities reflective of a specific time, place and social location.
• Understand how technological outcomes can be interpreted and justified and/or critiqued in terms of their historical, cultural, social, and geographical location.
• Understand the implications for technological outcomes of probable and possible futures.