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Curriculum levels

=Level Seven 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 effective development of an outcome to completion.

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

Outcome development and evaluation
• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation, using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue.

Technological Knowledge
Students will:

Technological modelling
• Understand how the “should” and “could” decisions in technological modelling rely on an understanding of how evidence can change in value across contexts and how different tools are used to ascertain and mitigate risk.

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

Technological systems
• Understand the concepts of redundancy and reliability and their implications for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Nature of Technology
Students will:

Characteristics of technology
• Understand the implications of ongoing contestation and competing priorities for complex and innovative decision making in technological development.

Characteristics of technological outcomes
• Understand that technological outcomes are a resolution of form and function priorities and that malfunction affects how people view and accept outcomes.