Curriculum+Level+8+Technology

Curriculum levels

=Level Eight Technology=

Technological Practice
Students will:

Planning for practice
• Critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the effi cient development of an outcome to completion.

Brief development
• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the context and the issue to be resolved. Justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.

Outcome development and evaluation
• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and fi tness-for-purpose determinations in order to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, trialling in the physical and social environments, and an understanding of the issue as it relates to the wider context. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fi tness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation, using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue that takes account of all contextual dimensions.

Technological Knowledge
Students will:

Technological modelling
• Understand the role of technological modelling as a key part of technological development, justifying its importance on moral, ethical, sustainable, cultural, political, economic, and historical grounds.

Technological products
• Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials development and evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.

Technological systems
• Understand operational parameters and their role in the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Nature of Technology
Students will:

Characteristics of technology
• Understand the implications of technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown, intended and unintended.

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