Curriculum+Level+4+Technology

=Curriculum levels= = = =Level Four Technology=

Technological Practice
Students will:

Planning for practice
• Undertake planning that includes reviewing the effectiveness of past actions and resourcing, exploring implications for future actions and accessing of resources, and consideration of stakeholder feedback, to enable the development of an outcome.

Brief development
• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity. Describe the key attributes identified in stakeholder feedback, which will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.

Outcome development and evaluation
• Investigate a context to develop ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake functional modelling that takes account of stakeholder feedback in order to select and develop the outcome that best addresses the key attributes. Incorporating stakeholder feedback, evaluate the outcome’s fitness for purpose in terms of how well it addresses the need or opportunity.

Technological Knowledge
Students will:

Technological modelling
• Understand how different forms of functional modelling are used to explore possibilities and to justify decision making and how prototyping can be used to justify refinement of technological outcomes.

Technological products
• Understand that materials can be formed, manipulated, and/or transformed to enhance the fitness for purpose of a technological product.

Technological systems
• Understand how technological systems employ control to allow for the transformation of inputs to outputs.

Nature of Technology
Students will:

Characteristics of technology
• Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.

Characteristics of technological outcomes
• Understand that technological outcomes can be interpreted in terms of how they might be used and by whom and that each has a proper function as well as possible alternative functions.