Rationale
Technologies enrich and impact on the lives of people and societies globally. They can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural, managed and constructed environments.
Australia needs enterprising individuals who can make discerning decisions about the development and use of technologies, develop solutions to complex challenges and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. Therefore, all young Australians should develop capacity for action and a critical appreciation of how technologies are developed and can contribute to societies.
Aims
Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that, individually and collaboratively, students:
- investigate, design, plan, manage, create and evaluate solutions
- are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies, and understand how technologies have developed over time
- make informed and ethical decisions about the role, impact and use of technologies in their own lives, the economy, environment and society for a sustainable future
- engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate appropriate technologies – tools, equipment, processes, materials, data, systems and components − when designing and creating solutions
- analyse and evaluate needs, opportunities or problems to identify and create solutions.
Structure
Version 9 Australian Curriculum. (2023). Understand this learning
area: Technologies. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-learning-area/technologies