This Curriculum area is divided into two sections, Design and Technology and Digital Technologies
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, and who can independently and collaboratively develop solutions to complex challenges and contribute to sustainable patterns of living. 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 Australian Curriculum: Technologies –technologies and other resources students will create innovative solutions. They will work independently and collaboratively to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to respond creatively to current and future needs and opportunities. The practical nature of the Technologies learning area engages students in critical and creative thinking, including understanding interrelationships in systems when solving complex problems.
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 their own lives, 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
• analyse and evaluate needs, opportunities or problems to identify and create solutions.
Content in Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies is organised under two related strands:
• Knowledge and understanding
• Processes and production skills. Under each strand, curriculum content is further organised into sub-strands.