The Australian Curriculum: Technologies Foundation – Year 10 comprises two subjects:
- Design and Technologies
- Digital Technologies.
The Australian Curriculum: Technologies is written on the basis that all students will study the two subjects from Foundation to the end of Year 8.
In Year 9 and 10, student access to technologies subjects will be determined by school authorities. These could include Design and Technologies and/or Digital Technologies as outlined in the Australian Curriculum: Technologies and/or subjects relating to specific technologies contexts, determined by state and territory school authorities or individual schools.
The curriculum for each of Design and Technologies and Digital Technologies describes the distinct knowledge, understanding and skills of the subject and, where appropriate, highlights their similarities and complementary learning. This approach allows students to develop a comprehensive understanding of traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies. It also provides the flexibility – especially in the primary years of schooling – for developing integrated teaching programs that focus on both Technologies subjects and other learning areas. Figure 1 shows the relationship between the overarching idea, key ideas and subjects of the Technologies learning area.
The curriculum for each Technologies subject is written in bands of year levels:
- Foundation – Year 2
- Years 3 and 4
- Years 5 and 6
- Years 7 and 8
- Years 9 and 10.
Strands
Knowledge, understanding and skills in each subject are presented through two related strands:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Processes and production skills.
Table 1 outlines the focus of knowledge, understanding and skills across the Technologies learning area Foundation – Year 10.
| Design and Technologies | Digital Technologies |
|---|---|
| Knowledge and understanding | Knowledge and understanding |
Technologies and society
|
Digital systems
|
| Processes and production skills | Processes and production skills |
Creating designed solutions by:
| Collecting, managing and analysing data Creating digital solutions by:
|
Teachers can select technologies-specific content from the Knowledge and understanding strand and students can apply skills from the Processes and production skills strand to that content.
The common strand structure provides an opportunity to highlight similarities across the two subjects that will facilitate integrated approaches to teaching.
- Last updated:
- 8 August 2019
