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Characteristics of Technological Outcomes  This component provides opportunity to examine the fitness for purpose of technological outcomes in the past, and to make informed predictions about future technological directions, based on social and personal values, and potential technological advancements. Interpreting technological outcomes relies on an ability to identify the purpose for the outcome, and the values that underpinned its development and continued presence. Examining a range of historical, contemporary and potential future technological outcomes provides opportunities for students to interrogate notions of what is valued as being fit for purpose across people, time and place. It also allows for a critical review of the fitness of any purpose, and how this may change as the values of both designers and users evolve over time and place. The History Makers (Learning Media Applications edition published in 2007) discusses examples of the way things are valued differently across time, and how different social and cultural values can influence what is seen as appropriate in contemporary situations.

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