- "Technologies can play an important role in transforming, restoring and sustaining societies and natural, managed, and constructed environments". (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2015)
- Two distinct but related subjects:
- Design and Technologies (Design thinking)
- Digital Technologies (computational thinking)
- Ensures all students benefit from learning/working with traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies
- The technologies learning area allows critical and creative thinking
- Students should be able to develop a critical appreciation of the processes that technologies are developed and how technologies contribute to society
- Allows students the opportunity to engage with technology that will in turn, demonstrate the impact technological solutions have on equity, ethics and personal and social values.
- Demonstrates a desirable sustainable future for students
- The aims and rationale set out in ACARA Technologies aid in the development, knowledge, understanding and skills of technology in the 21st century
References
Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). (2015). Technologies. Retrieved from http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/
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