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Technology in the curriculum Technology Indicators of progression Technology achievement objectives

**Technological Practice** **Technological Knowledge** Nature of Technology

Activities in technology education should allow students to develop, enhance or explore a range of components of technology, including: Technological Processes Technological processes are the activity side of technology - the make and do component. It is the most important part. Having the capability to engage in technological activity means being able to develop technological solutions to problems. The result of technological activity is products and services that people need or want, either for personal consumption or for company or industrial use. By way of example, consider all the products and services that are consumed/used every day by members of the class (food, clothes, cars, bikes, skates, ..., banking, takeout food, ...). How many are imported? How many are created in their community? Technological capability means being able to produce those products and services. Technological problem solving is a set of actions that are employed in one form or another worldwide by any company or individual who creates new products and services. The more sophisticated the product or service, the more well thought out the strategy. The most common name for this strategy, or methodology, is design. Technology Education programs encapsulate these strategies into a simplified design model. Implementing the model means having students apply it to develop solutions to problems. In order to work through the design model, students learn to follow procedures, how to document their work, how to identify technological resources and use them, and to give reasons for their decisions. They acquire new skills with tools and materials, and they build confidence in their ability to create something new and original. They build technological problem solving capability. from de[]
 * The Characteristics of Technology – to understand technology as a purposeful intervention-by-design human activity with the potential to enhance the capability of humans to transform materials, energy and information.
 * The Characteristics of Technological Outcomes - to understand such outcomes as material products and systems developed through technological practice to be fit for purpose.
 * Technological Modelling – to understand the purpose and methods of functional modelling for the ongoing evaluation of design concepts for yet-to-be-realised technological outcomes and prototyping for the evaluation of the fitness for purpose of the technological outcome itself.
 * Technological Products – to understand the relationship between the properties of materials and their performance capability in the development of technological products and the concepts underpinning material evaluation, formulation and disposal.
 * Technological Systems – to understand the interconnected parts (technological products and processes) that serve to transform, store, transport or control materials, energy and/or information and the concepts underpinning systems development and maintenance.
 * Brief Development – to develop practices that allow for the defining of a desired outcome to meet a need or realise an opportunity and therefore provide purpose and guidance for technological practice.
 * Planning for Practice – to develop effective and efficient organising practices and therefore support successful technological practice.
 * Outcome Development and Evaluation – to develop idea generation, trialling and production practices that lead to 'fit for purpose' outcomes from technological practice.