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 and who can
independently and collaboratively develop solutions to complex challenges and
contribute to sustainable patterns of living. Technologies can play an
important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural,
managed and constructed environments.
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies ensures that
all students benefit from learning about and working with traditional,
contemporary and emerging technologies that shape the world in which we live.
By applying their knowledge and practical skills and processes when using
technologies and other resources to create innovative solutions, independently
and collaboratively, they develop knowledge, understanding and skills to
respond creatively to current and future needs.
The practical nature of the Technologies learning area
engages students in critical and creative thinking, including understanding
interrelationships in systems when solving complex problems. A systematic
approach to experimentation, problem-solving, prototyping and evaluation
instils in students the value of planning and reviewing processes to realise
ideas.
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. Students need
opportunities to consider the use and impact of technological solutions on
equity, ethics, and personal and social values. In creating solutions, as well
as responding to the designed world, students consider desirable sustainable
patterns of living, and contribute to preferred futures for themselves and
others.
The Australian Curriculum: 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 the economy, environment and society for a sustainable
future
- engage confidently with and responsibly select and manipulate
appropriate technologies − materials, data, systems, components, tools and
equipment − when designing and creating solutions
- critique, analyse and evaluate problems, needs or opportunities to
identify and create solutions.