
1. Rationale
1.1. Technologies are important in developing skills for students to be prepared for current and future ideas and needs. creating innovative solutions , independently and collaboratively, developing knowledge.
2. Subject Aims
2.1. Digital Technologies
2.1.1. develop confidence as critical users of technologies and designers and producers of designed solutions
2.1.2. investigate, generate and critique innovative and ethical designed solutions for sustainable futures
2.1.3. use design and systems thinking to generate design ideas and communicate these to a range of audiences
2.1.4. produce designed solutions suitable for a range of technologies contexts by selecting and manipulating a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment creatively, competently and safely; and managing processes
2.1.5. evaluate processes and designed solutions and transfer knowledge and skills to new situations
2.1.6. understand the roles and responsibilities of people in design and technologies occupations and how they contribute to society.
2.2. Design & Technologies
2.2.1. design, create, manage and evaluate sustainable and innovative digital solutions to meet and redefine current and future needs
2.2.2. use computational thinking and the key concepts of abstraction; data collection, representation and interpretation; specification, algorithms and implementation to create digital solutions
2.2.3. confidently use digital systems to efficiently and effectively automate the transformation of data into information and to creatively communicate ideas in a range of settings
2.2.4. apply protocols and legal practices that support safe, ethical and respectful communications and collaboration with known and unknown audiences
2.2.5. apply systems thinking to monitor, analyse, predict and shape the interactions within and between information systems and the impact of these systems on individuals, societies, economies and environments.