Rationale and aims

Rationale

The Technologies learning area enriches the lifestyles of people and communities by encouraging innovative and enterprising behaviours through real-world learning. It fosters students’ curiosity, innovation, creativity, problem-solving, project management and ethical understanding through the solving of complex challenges.

Technologies ensures students benefit from both the knowledge of, and practical experience with, traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies that influence our world. Students are encouraged to consider the impact of technological solutions on social and equity issues, including personal and community values. The Technologies learning area engages students in analytical, critical, creative and design thinking skills. Through an agile and systematic approach, students learn to problem-solve, ideate, experiment, prototype and project manage to develop real-world solutions.

Aims

The Western Australian Curriculum: Technologies aims to develop the knowledge, understandings and skills to ensure that students:

• make informed and ethical decisions about the role, application and impact of technologies on the people, society and the economy
• are creative, innovative and enterprising when using traditional, contemporary and emerging technologies
• identify, investigate, ideate and analyse needs, environments, problems and/or opportunities to design and create solutions
• engage confidently in design thinking skills to design, implement and evaluate solutions.