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Select the Technology Strand(s) |
Select the Achievement Objectives to be assessed
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Technological Practice
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Planning for Practice: Critically analyse their own
and others past and current planning and management
practices in order to develop and employ project management
practices that will ensure the effective development of an
outcome to completion.
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Brief Development: Justify the nature of an intended
outcome in relation to the issue to be resolved and justify
specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and
wider community considerations. Specifications inform the
development of an outcome and its evaluation.
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Outcome Development and Evaluation: Critically
analyse their own and others outcomes and evaluative
practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible
outcomes. Establish and conduct experimentation and critical
evaluation taking account of key and wider community
stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and
social environments. Use the information gained to select,
develop and justify the outcome that best addresses the
specifications.
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Nature of Technology |
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Characteristics of Technology: Understand the
implications of ongoing contestation and competing
priorities for complex and innovative decision making in
technological development.
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Characteristics of Technological outcomes: Understand
that Technological outcomes are a resolution of form and
function priorities and that malfunction impacts on peoples
views of and acceptance of technological outcomes.
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Technological Knowledge |
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Technological Modelling: Understand how the “should”
and “could” decisions in technological modelling rely on an
understanding of how evidence can change in value across
contexts, and how different tools are used to ascertain and
mitigate risk.
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Technological Products:
Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials
testing and the implications of these for design,
development, maintenance and disposal of technological
products.
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Technological Systems: Understand the concepts of
redundancy and reliability and their implications for the
design, development and maintenance of technological systems
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Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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Additional Curriculum areas
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Learning Languages
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Arts
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Science
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Mathematics
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Social Sciences
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Te Reo
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English
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Health and P.E.
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Specific Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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Key Competencies focus:
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managing self
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relating to others
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participating and contributing
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thinking
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