Curriculum+Level+6+Technology

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Six Technology=

Technological Practice
Students will:

Planning for practice
• Critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools. Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.

Brief development
• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.

Outcome development and evaluation
• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a fi nal outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fi tness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation, using feedback from stakeholders.

Technological Knowledge
Students will:

Technological modelling
• Understand the role and nature of evidence and reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.

Technological products
• Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their properties, and understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product development.

Technological systems
• Understand the implications of subsystems for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Nature of Technology
Students will:

Characteristics of technology
• Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities through collaborative practice.

Characteristics of technological outcomes
• Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system. Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people’s views of themselves and possible futures.