Technologies
Overview
What are the Technologies?
Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make discerning decisions about the development and use of technologies. It needs people who can independently and collaboratively develop innovative solutions to complex problems and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. Technologies, in their development and use, are influenced by – and can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining – our societies and our natural, managed, constructed and digital environments.
The Technologies learning area draws together the distinct but related subjects of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies will ensure that all students benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that shape the world in which we live. The ubiquity of digital technologies provides new ways of thinking, collaborating and communicating for people of all ages and abilities. A comprehensive education in Technologies provides opportunities for students to progress from creative and directed play through to the consolidation of knowledge, understanding and skills. This learning area provides opportunities for students to apply practical skills and processes when using technologies and resources to create innovative solutions that meet current and future needs.
All young Australians should develop capacity for action and a critical appreciation of the processes through which technologies are developed and how technologies can contribute to societies. They need opportunities to shape and challenge attitudes to the use and impact of technologies. They will do this by evaluating how their own solutions and those of others affect users, equity, sustainability, ethics, and personal and social values. In creating solutions, as well as responding to the designed world, they will contribute to sustainable patterns of living for themselves and others.
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies Foundation to Year 10 is written on the assumption that all students from Foundation to Year 8 will study two subjects: Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies.
At Years 9 to 10, the Australian Curriculum: Technologies is written on the assumption that school authorities will decide whether students can choose to continue in one or both subjects and/or if technologies specialisations that do not duplicate these subjects will be offered.
The curriculum for each of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies describes the distinct knowledge, understanding and skills of the subject and, where appropriate, highlights their similarities and complementary learning. This approach allows students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature of traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. It also provides the flexibility – especially in the primary years of schooling – for developing integrated teaching programs that focus on both Technologies subjects and other learning areas.
At Findon High School
In Year 8 all students study Technology Studies as a term unit. Students in Year 9 and 10 may choose to study in the technology area. In Year 10 a semester unit of Information Technology is optional. In the senior school (SACE) students may choose subjects based on interest, career needs and considering previous study, however details on prerequisites should be consulted for each of the technology subjects listed below.
Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make discerning decisions about the development and use of technologies. It needs people who can independently and collaboratively develop innovative solutions to complex problems and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. Technologies, in their development and use, are influenced by – and can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining – our societies and our natural, managed, constructed and digital environments.
The Technologies learning area draws together the distinct but related subjects of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies. The Australian Curriculum: Technologies will ensure that all students benefit from learning about and working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that shape the world in which we live. The ubiquity of digital technologies provides new ways of thinking, collaborating and communicating for people of all ages and abilities. A comprehensive education in Technologies provides opportunities for students to progress from creative and directed play through to the consolidation of knowledge, understanding and skills. This learning area provides opportunities for students to apply practical skills and processes when using technologies and resources to create innovative solutions that meet current and future needs.
All young Australians should develop capacity for action and a critical appreciation of the processes through which technologies are developed and how technologies can contribute to societies. They need opportunities to shape and challenge attitudes to the use and impact of technologies. They will do this by evaluating how their own solutions and those of others affect users, equity, sustainability, ethics, and personal and social values. In creating solutions, as well as responding to the designed world, they will contribute to sustainable patterns of living for themselves and others.
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies Foundation to Year 10 is written on the assumption that all students from Foundation to Year 8 will study two subjects: Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies.
At Years 9 to 10, the Australian Curriculum: Technologies is written on the assumption that school authorities will decide whether students can choose to continue in one or both subjects and/or if technologies specialisations that do not duplicate these subjects will be offered.
The curriculum for each of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies describes the distinct knowledge, understanding and skills of the subject and, where appropriate, highlights their similarities and complementary learning. This approach allows students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature of traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. It also provides the flexibility – especially in the primary years of schooling – for developing integrated teaching programs that focus on both Technologies subjects and other learning areas.
At Findon High School
In Year 8 all students study Technology Studies as a term unit. Students in Year 9 and 10 may choose to study in the technology area. In Year 10 a semester unit of Information Technology is optional. In the senior school (SACE) students may choose subjects based on interest, career needs and considering previous study, however details on prerequisites should be consulted for each of the technology subjects listed below.
Year 8 - Technology Studies
CODE: 8TST1
SEMESTER 1
Structure and Organisation:
The program is predominantly practical based where skills will be taught and utilized within set and design driven perimeters. Students will be required to follow a prescribed design process in order to investigate, identify, design, plan, produce and evaluate a negotiated product. The students develop their communication skills relevant to material products as they improve their understanding and use of language and terminology specific to design and technology in written or oral forms to communicate ideas about product design.
SEMESTER 1
Structure and Organisation:
The program is predominantly practical based where skills will be taught and utilized within set and design driven perimeters. Students will be required to follow a prescribed design process in order to investigate, identify, design, plan, produce and evaluate a negotiated product. The students develop their communication skills relevant to material products as they improve their understanding and use of language and terminology specific to design and technology in written or oral forms to communicate ideas about product design.
YEAR 9 - TECHNOLOGy Studies
CODE: 9TST1, 9TST2SEMESTERS 1 and 2ALTERNATIVE:
Structure and Organisation:
Students may select to do two units.
Students enhance their work skills by exploring and applying practical skills and processes and demonstrating safe and ethical work practices, individually and with others, therefore extending their employability skills and career awareness.
Structure and Organisation:
Students may select to do two units.
Students enhance their work skills by exploring and applying practical skills and processes and demonstrating safe and ethical work practices, individually and with others, therefore extending their employability skills and career awareness.
YEAR 10 - TECHNOLOGy Studies
CODE: 0TST1, 0TST2
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
Structure and Organisation:
One or both units may be taken. Students undertake studies in each of the three strands
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
Structure and Organisation:
One or both units may be taken. Students undertake studies in each of the three strands
- critiquing
- designing
- making
Year 10 - Information technology
CODE: 0ITT1
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
Structure and Organisation:
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
Structure and Organisation:
- Students learn how to
- operate a personal computer
- operate a word processing application
- operate a spreadsheet application
- operate a database application
- operate a presentation package
- send and retrieve information over the Internet using browsers and e-mail
STAGE 1 - MATERIAL PRODUCTS
CODE: 1MMA101, 1MMA102
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
This focus area involves the use of a diverse range of manufacturing technologies such as tools, machines, equipment, and/or systems to design and make products with resistant materials such as metals, plastics, wood, composites, ceramics, textiles, and foods.
Examples of contexts for material products include:
Assessment
Assessment at Stage 1 is school based.
Evidence of Learning
The following assessment types enable students to demonstrate their learning in Stage 1 Design and Technology:
For a 10-credit subject, students should provide evidence of their learning through four assessments. Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%. Students undertake:
For a 20-credit subject, students should provide evidence of their learning through six to eight assessments. Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%. Students undertake:
At Findon High School 2 courses are offered
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
This focus area involves the use of a diverse range of manufacturing technologies such as tools, machines, equipment, and/or systems to design and make products with resistant materials such as metals, plastics, wood, composites, ceramics, textiles, and foods.
Examples of contexts for material products include:
- building and construction
- ceramics
- clothing
- foods
- timber and timber products
- metals
- textiles
- polymers.
Assessment
Assessment at Stage 1 is school based.
Evidence of Learning
The following assessment types enable students to demonstrate their learning in Stage 1 Design and Technology:
- Assessment Type 1: Skills and Applications Tasks
- Assessment Type 2: Folio
- Assessment Type 3: Product.
For a 10-credit subject, students should provide evidence of their learning through four assessments. Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%. Students undertake:
- two skills and applications tasks
- one folio
- one product.
For a 20-credit subject, students should provide evidence of their learning through six to eight assessments. Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%. Students undertake:
- at least three skills and applications tasks
- one folio
- two products.
At Findon High School 2 courses are offered
Material Products I – Furniture Construction
Material Products I & II – Metals
STAGE 1 - COMMUNICATIONS PRODUCTS - PHOTOGRAPHY
CODE: 1CCA101, 1CCA102
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
STAGE 1 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CODE: 1IFT102, 1IFT102
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
Recommended Previous Studies: 0ITT1
Structure and Organisation:
One or both units may be taken.
The content is organised into the following five topics, two of which are combined to form a unit:
The topics have a practical basis and emphasise the development of skills and understanding in designing, making, and critiquing systems.
The Applications topic can include the study of any software application that allows data entry, storage, manipulation, and outputting of the results of processing. For example, topics could be developed for website applications, interactive multimedia applications, database applications, or spreadsheet applications.
The Open topic allows schools to develop a program that supports the specialist needs of students and allows them to provide evidence that they have met the learning outcomes.
The Applications topic and the Open topic can be studied more than once.
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
ALTERNATIVE:
Recommended Previous Studies: 0ITT1
Structure and Organisation:
One or both units may be taken.
The content is organised into the following five topics, two of which are combined to form a unit:
- Computer Systems
- Programming
- Relational Database Systems
- Applications
- Open Topic.
The topics have a practical basis and emphasise the development of skills and understanding in designing, making, and critiquing systems.
The Applications topic can include the study of any software application that allows data entry, storage, manipulation, and outputting of the results of processing. For example, topics could be developed for website applications, interactive multimedia applications, database applications, or spreadsheet applications.
The Open topic allows schools to develop a program that supports the specialist needs of students and allows them to provide evidence that they have met the learning outcomes.
The Applications topic and the Open topic can be studied more than once.
STAGE 2 - DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY - MATERIAL PRODUCTS A & B
CODE: 2MMA101, 2MMB102
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
CREDIT 10 or 20
Stage 2 Design and Technology can be studied as a 10-credit subject or a 20-credit subject
SEMESTERS 1 and 2
CREDIT 10 or 20
Stage 2 Design and Technology can be studied as a 10-credit subject or a 20-credit subject
STAGE 2 - DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY - COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS A (PHOTOGRAPHY)
CODE: 2CCA20SEMESTERS 1 and 2ALTERNATIVE:
STAGE 2 - DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY - COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS B (IT)