Technologies
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.
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies comprises 2 subjects:
- Design and Technologies
- Digital Technologies
All students will study the 2 subjects to the end of Year 8.
In Years 9 and 10, student access to Technologies subjects will be determined by staff expertise and student preferences.
Content in Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies is organised under 2 related strands:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Processes and production skills.
Under each strand, curriculum content is further organised into sub-strands.
- Students create solutions using an iterative approach.
- In each subject they evaluate, collaborate on and manage ideas, processes and production through the content descriptions of the investigating and defining; Generating and designing and producing and implementing sub-strands.
- These 3 sub-strands are where computational, design and systems thinking are mainly addressed.
- Systems thinking is addressed equally in both subjects.
- In Design and Technologies there is a focus on design thinking.
- In Digital Technologies there is a focus on computational thinking in these 3 skills sub-strands as well as in the data representation sub-strand (in knowledge and understanding).
In Design and Technologies students use design thinking and technologies to generate and produce designed solutions for authentic needs and opportunities
In Digital Technologies students use computational thinking and information systems to define, design and implement digital solutions for authentic problems.
Year 7 students all study a semester of Technologies, participating for five weeks in the subjects of Wood Technology, Industrial Design, Food Technology and Digital Technology
Year 8 students select and specialise in a Technology Elective for a semester.
The Technology courses offered to Year 8 include:
- Wood Technology
- Food technology
- STEM
As student's progress in their learning, opportunities are provided to allow Year 9 and 10's to pursue interests and specialisations. To assist with this a wider range of electives are offered.
All classes are combined Year 9 and 10 student groupings, and the units offered are dependent upon both staff skills and student numbers.
Technologies courses currently offered to Year 9 and 10 students include:
- Industrial Design
- Wood Technology
- Metal Technology
- Food Technology: Baking
- Food Technology: Hospitality
- Food Technology: International Cooking
- STEM: Structural Engineering
- STEM: Project Based Learning
- STEM: 3D Modelling
- Digital Technology: Games Programming