NZTA: Safer Journeys and the BIG EventTechnology
BIG [adjective] 1. Large. 2. Above average in size, quantity, magnitude or extent. 3. Significant.
Event [noun] 1. An important incident. 2. Something that happens at a given place or time. 3. A gathering. 4. An organised occasion. e.g. ceremony, meeting, festival, concert, sporting competition.
Learning Area: / Level: / Values: / Key Competencies: / Integration: Suggestions
Technology.
Kaua e rangiruatia te hapai o te hoe;
e kore to tatou waka e u ki uta.
In technology, students learn to be innovative
developers of products and systems anddiscerningconsumers who will make a difference in the world. / Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
1.Technological Practice
2.Planning for practice
3.Outcome development and evaluation
4.Characteristics of technology / Excellence
Innovation
Diversity
Equity
Community and Participation
Ecological Sustainability
Integrity
Respect / Thinking
Managing self
Participating and contributing
Relating to others
Making meaning from language, symbols and text / English
The Arts
Health and Physical Education
Learning Languages
Mathematics and Statistics
Science
Social Sciences
Technology
Key Concept Understanding: / Driving Question: / Subsidiary Questions: / These are the questions that students will be able to respond to.
When you travel smart, you travel safe. / Are you ready to travel to the BIG Event? / 1. Describe safe travel (when going to and from an event).
2. Explain how smart choices can result in safe travel (when going to and from an event).
3. Create a resource to help people travel smart and safe (when going to and from an event).
Achievement Objectives: / Learning Intentions: / Learning Experiences:These have been written in three areas.
1.Bringing in ideas 2.Connecting and linking ideas 3. Putting ideas into another context
Select the achievement objectives that best match the abilities of your students.
Level One
Technological Practice
Brief development
Describe the outcome they are developing and identify the attributes it should have, taking account of the need or opportunity and the resources available.
Planning for practice
Outline a general plan to support the development of an outcome, identifying appropriate steps and resources.
Outcome development and evaluation
Investigate a context to communicate potential outcomes. Evaluate these against attributes; select and develop an outcome in keeping with the identified attributes.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technology
Understand that technology is purposeful intervention through design.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are products or systems developed by people and have a physical nature and a functional nature.
Level Two
Technological Practice
Brief development
Explain the outcome they are developing and describe the attributes it should have, taking account of the need or opportunity and the resources available.
Planning for practice
Develop a plan that identifies the key stages and the resources required to complete an outcome.
Outcome development and evaluation
Investigate a context to develop ideas for potential outcomes. Evaluate these against the identified attributes; select and develop an outcome. Evaluate the outcome in terms of the need or opportunity.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technology
Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and the environment and increases people’s capability.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are developed through technological practice and have related physical and functional natures.
Level Three
Technological Practice
Brief development
Describe the nature of an intended outcome, explaining how it addresses the need or opportunity. Describe the key attributes that enable development and evaluation of an outcome.
Planning for practice
Undertake planning to identify the key stages and resources required to develop an outcome. Revisit planning to include reviews of progress and identify implications for subsequent decision making.
Outcome development and evaluation
Investigate a context to develop ideas for potential outcomes. Trial and evaluate these against key attributes to select and develop an outcome to address the need or opportunity. Evaluate this outcome against the key attributes and how it addresses the need or opportunity.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technology
Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in historical and contemporary contexts and that technological knowledge is validated by successful function.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are recognisable as fit for purpose by the relationship between their physical and functional natures.
Level Four
Technological Practice
Brief development
Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity. Describe the key attributes identified in stakeholder feedback, which will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.
Planning for practice
Undertake planning that includes reviewing the effectiveness of past actions and resourcing, exploring implications for future actions and accessing of resources, and consideration of stakeholder feedback, to enable the development of an outcome.
Outcome development and evaluation
Investigate a context to develop ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake functional modelling that takes account of stakeholder feedback in order to select and develop the outcome that best addresses the key attributes. Incorporating stakeholder feedback, evaluate the outcome’s fitness for purpose in terms of how well it addresses the need or opportunity.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technology
Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes can be interpreted in terms of how they might be used and by whom and that each has a proper function as well as possible alternative functions.
Level Five
Technological Practice
Planning for practice
Analyse their own and others’ planning practices to inform the selection and use of planning tools. Use these to support and justify planning decisions (including those relating to the management of resources) that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.
Technological Practice
Brief development
Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity. Describe specifications that reflect key stakeholder feedback and that will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.
Technological Practice
Outcome development and evaluation
Analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake ongoing functional modelling and evaluation that takes account of key stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select and develop the outcome that best addresses the specifications. Evaluate the final outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technology
Understand how people’s perceptions and acceptance of technology impact on technological developments and how and why technological knowledge becomes codified.
Nature of Technology
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Understand that technological outcomes are fit for purpose in terms of time and context. Understand the concept of malfunction and how “failure” can inform future outcomes. / Schools will have their own criteria for developing learning intentions. Examples are included below. Highlight the Learning Intention/s that best match the abilities of your students. Highlight your WALTs from the
Technological Practice
Develop a brief to describe an intended outcome
Level One
Describe the intended outcome.
Identify the attributes the outcome should have to reflect the need or opportunity to be addressed.
Explain how the plan meets the identified need or opportunity.
Explain how the plan meets the resources available.
Level Two
Identify the attributes the planned outcome should have.
Identify the need or opportunity.
Identify the resources available.
Describe attributes for the outcome that reflect the identified need or opportunity.
Describe attributes that allow the outcome to be evaluated.
Explain the intended outcome in terms of the need or opportunity.
Explain the intended outcome in terms of the resources available.
Level Three
Define a conceptual statement that describes an intended outcome.
Explain why the conceptual statement meets an intended outcome.
Describe the key attributes of the intended outcome.
Explain how the intended outcome addresses need or opportunity.
Explain how the key attributes identified in stakeholder feedback will inform the development of the outcome.
Explain how the key attributes identified in stakeholder feedback will inform the evaluation of the outcome.
Redefine and modify the conceptual statement and key attributes.
Describe key attributes that allow the identified outcome to be evaluated.
Level Four
Identify a need or opportunity appropriate to the established context/outcome.
Develop a conceptual statement to justify the technological outcome being developed and the reasons for its development.
Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity.
Identify the key attributes from initial research information and stakeholder feedback.
Describe the key attributes identified in initial research information and stakeholder feedback.
Explain how these key attributes will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.
Evaluate the conceptual statement and key attributes based on understandings of the context/issue and feedback from stakeholders.
Undertake refinement and/or modification of the conceptual statement and key attributes based on the evaluation.
Identify and describe key attributes that will allow stakeholders (including teachers) to assess the fitness for purpose of the technological outcome.
Level Five
Define the needs and wants of the intended outcome.
Define the opportunity.
Identify and describe key attributes that will allow the stakeholders to assess the overall concept.
Describe the specifications in relation to the requirements of the stakeholder.
Develop a conceptual statement to justify the technological outcome being developed and the reasons for its development.
Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity.
Describe the key attributes identified in initial research information and stakeholder feedback.
Explain how these key attributes will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.
Evaluate the conceptual statement and key attributes based on understandings of the context/issue and feedback from stakeholders.
Support the conceptual claim with evidence/research.
Respond to stakeholder feedback to develop the outcome.
Modify the brief to reflect ongoing developments.
Evaluate the conceptual statement and key attributes based on understandings of the context/issue and feedback from stakeholders.
Planning for practice
Level One
Describe what has been done already and the resources used so far.
Outline a general plan to support the development of an outcome.
Describe appropriate steps in developing the identified technological outcome.
Identify appropriate resources they could use in developing the identified technological outcome.
Level Two
Identify past and present technological outcomes developed to meet an identified need.
Identify the attributes of an identified technological outcome.
Identify the resources required for an identified technological outcome.
Identify stakeholder feedback on an identified technological outcome.
Identify the key stages and the resources required to complete an identified maybetechnological outcome.
Explain the role of the key stages in completing the outcome.
Develop a plan that sequences the key stages and the resources required to complete an outcome.
Level Three
Identify the key stages required to develop an outcome.
Identify the key resources required to develop an outcome.
Explain the importance of key stages and why key resources were used.
Revisit planning to include reviews of progress.
Explain the links between past and current activities to develop the identified outcome.
Revisit planning to identify possible future decision making needed to develop the identified outcome.
Explain how the predicted activities will support the completion of an identified outcome.
Level Four
Use research to develop a plan for an identified technological outcome.
Use functional modelling to revise and elaborate the plan for a technological outcome.
Develop a plan for a technological outcome that includes key attributes that meet a need or opportunity.
Test the materials to be used for their ability to meet the key attributes of an identified technological outcome.
Create technological models to evaluate the outcome in terms of how well it meets the need or opportunity.
Review and reflect upon the effectiveness of the key stages and resourcing of previous technological models.
Review and reflect upon stakeholder feedback about previous technological models to inform future development work.
Use the review of past models to identify implications for future actions and accessing of resources to meet the brief requirements.
Develop a revised plan for a technological outcome based upon the effectiveness of past actions and resourcing, the implications of future actions and accessing of resources, and stakeholder feedback.
Use a GANTT chart to identify the stages and expected time frame for the development of the final outcome.
Use the revised plan and GANTT chart to develop an outcome that addresses the identified need or opportunity.
Select and access key resources required to complete the technological outcome.
Evaluate the proposed final outcome against the key attributes.
Evaluate the proposed final outcome against the need or opportunity.
Level Five
Can describe Describhe use of selected planning tools.
Explain the key attributes in this planning process.
Justify the use of these tools for this concept plan. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses in own plan.
Analyse the strengths and weaknesses in the plans of others.
Develop a plan for a technological outcome that includes key attributes that meet a need or opportunity.
Test the materials to be used for their ability to meet the key attributes of an identified technological outcome.
Create technological models to evaluate the outcome in terms of how well it meets the need or opportunity.
Review and reflect upon the effectiveness of the key stages and resourcing of previous technological models.
Review and reflect upon stakeholder feedback about previous technological models to inform future development work.
Use the review of past models to identify implications for future actions and accessing of resources to meet the brief requirements.
Develop a revised plan for a technological outcome based upon the effectiveness of past actions and resourcing, the implications of future actions and accessing of resources, and stakeholder feedback.
Use a GANTT chart to identify the stages and expected time frame for the development of the final outcome.
Use the revised plan and GANTT chart to develop an outcome that addresses the identified need or opportunity.
Select and access key resources required to complete the technological outcome.
Evaluate the proposed final outcome against the key attributes.
Evaluate the proposed final outcome against the need or opportunity.
Outcome development and evaluation
Level One
Investigate a context to develop potential outcomes.
Develop conceptual ideas for potential outcomes.
Communicate conceptual ideas through drawing, models, or verbally.
Evaluate potential outcomes against attributes.
Select an outcome in keeping with the identified attributes.
Evaluate possible outcomes in keeping with identified attributes and select an outcome to develop.
Develop an outcome in keeping with identified attributes.
Level Two
Investigate a context to develop conceptual ideas for potential outcomes.
Develop conceptual ideas for potential outcomes.
Evaluate potential outcomes against the identified attributes.
Select an outcome to develop.
Develop an outcome in keeping with the identified need or opportunity.
Evaluate the selected outcome in terms of how it addresses the need or opportunity.
Level Three
Investigate a context to develop ideas for potential outcomes.
Develop ideas for potential outcomes.
Trial and evaluate these outcomes against key attributes.
Select an outcome to address the need or opportunity.
Develop an outcome to address the need or opportunity.
Evaluate this outcome against the key attributes.
Evaluate this outcome against how it addresses the need or opportunity.
Level Four
Investigate a context to develop ideas for feasible outcomes.
Develop ideas for potential technological outcomes.
Use research (including stakeholder feedback) to develop conceptual ideas for technological outcomes that include key attributes, meet needs or opportunities, and address the availability and suitability of materials.
Use functional modelling to develop conceptual ideas for technological outcomes that include key attributes, meet needs or opportunities and address the availability and suitability of materials.
Use functional modelling to develop and select an outcome to best meet the expectations of stakeholder feedback.
Evaluate the fitness for purpose of the technological outcome in terms of how well it meets the need or opportunity.
Review and revise the functional modelling to test, evaluate and refine potential outcomes.
Develop a final outcome that incorporates all key attributes and meets the identified need or opportunity, using prototyping as appropriate.
Evaluate the fitness for purpose of the final outcome and how well it meets the need or opportunity, using stakeholder feedback as evidence.
Level Five
Investigate a context to develop ideas for feasible outcomes.
Develop ideas for potential technological outcomes.
Use research (including stakeholder feedback) to develop conceptual ideas for technological outcomes that include key attributes, meet needs or opportunities, and address the availability and suitability of materials.
Use functional modelling to develop conceptual ideas for technological outcomes that include key attributes, meet needs or opportunities and address the availability and suitability of materials.
Use functional modelling to develop and select an outcome to best meet the expectations of stakeholder feedback.