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Technological practice

The incremental practices involved in creating a technological outcome: including identifying needs or opportunities, exploring, defining and developing potential outcomes, and modelling, evaluating and testing to ensure resulting outcomes are fit for purpose.

Technological Practice is one of the three main strands of Technology in The New Zealand Curriculum 2007, and has the components of Brief Development, Planning for Practice and Outcome Development and Evaluation.

See explanatory paper: Technological Practice 

Example: Edges Art Framers – The practice of Edges Art Framers is one of many case studies of enterprises featured on Techlink.