ED1231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Critical Thinking, Australian Curriculum, Systems Theory
Environmental Science Technology and Enterprise
Lecture Two – Week Two
Assignment One Design Brief
- Outline the activity
- Includes specifications
Presentation
- Week 5
- Present design brief
Project Overview
- 500 words
Overarching idea
- Creating preferred futures
o The Technologies curriculum focuses on students developing the technologies
knowledge, understanding and skills to engage purposefully in helping to create
preferred futures. A focus on preferred futures involves systems thinking and provides
a methodology for identifying and moving towards socially responsible and
sustainable patterns of living.
o While the future cannot be predicted, future outcomes can be influenced by the
problems we choose to solve, the designs we create and the choices and decisions we
make. Preferred futures are those that students will envisage as desirable and
sustainable as they work through technologies processes and production.
A Rationale for Teaching Technologies
- Knowledge, understandings and skills involved in the design, development and use of
technologies are influenced by, and can play a role in, enriching and transforming societies
and our natural, managed and constructed environments.
- The Western Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies actively engages students in
creating quality designed solutions for identified needs and opportunities across a range of
technologies contexts. Students consider the economic, environmental and social impacts of
technological change and how the choice and use of technologies contributes to a sustainable
future. Decision-making processes are informed by ethical, legal, aesthetic and functional
factors.
- Through Design and Technologies students manage projects, independently and
collaboratively, from conception to realisation. They apply design and systems thinking and
design processes to investigate ideas, generate and refine ideas, plan, produce and evaluate
designed solutions. They develop their ability to generate innovative designed products,
services and environments.
Aim
- The Western Australian Curriculum: Technologies aims to develop the knowledge,
understandings and skills to ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
o investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions
o are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and
emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time
o make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in
the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future
o engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate
technologies − materials, data, systems, components, tools and equipment − when
designing and creating solutions
o critique, analyse and evaluate problems, needs or opportunities to identify and create
solutions.
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Document Summary
Creating preferred futures: the technologies curriculum focuses on students developing the technologies knowledge, understanding and skills to engage purposefully in helping to create preferred futures. Preferred futures are those that students will envisage as desirable and sustainable as they work through technologies processes and production. Knowledge, understandings and skills involved in the design, development and use of technologies are influenced by, and can play a role in, enriching and transforming societies and our natural, managed and constructed environments. The western australian curriculum: design and technologies actively engages students in creating quality designed solutions for identified needs and opportunities across a range of technologies contexts. Students consider the economic, environmental and social impacts of technological change and how the choice and use of technologies contributes to a sustainable future. Decision-making processes are informed by ethical, legal, aesthetic and functional factors. Through design and technologies students manage projects, independently and collaboratively, from conception to realisation.
