Technology
Technology is one of the eight key learning areas that make up the common curriculum for learners in Queensland schools.
Technology education provides students with an understanding of the processes and practices that lead to the design and development of new technological products and innovations within society. All students need an understanding of Technology to participate fully in shaping the creation of new and emerging technological solutions within the society.
Learning in the Technology key learning area is often structured around 'design challenges'. These provide students with real life and lifelike problem solving situations to which they can respond. In Technology students often tackle design challenges in collaborative teams, working together to design and develop a wide range of viable solutions using materials, information and systems.
As a result of their technology education students will be better able to:
- understand the nature and consequences of technological change within society and respond appropriately
- participate in the design and development of innovative technological products across a range of present and possible future contexts
- respond appropriately to, ethical dilemmas caused by the intended and unintended impacts of technological change on people and the environment.
In Years 1 to 7, Technology education often provides an integrating device for learning as students draw on knowledge from across the curriculum to design and develop products for themselves and others. Often this results in students employing their understanding of Mathematics, Science, English or SOSE to generate and create solutions to real life and lifelike problem solving situations in which they design, construct and test their ideas within the classroom.
During the junior secondary years, the Technology key learning area draws together knowledge from a range of traditional subject areas including Agricultural Education, Business Education, Home Economics, Industrial Design and Technology, and Information and Communication Technology Education.
The implementation of the Years 1-10 Technology syllabus will involve the building of new relationships and understandings between these areas. This aligns strongly to middle schooling philosophies.
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