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Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Choose an appropriate form, scale, and level of detail for prototyping, and plan procedures
  • Analyze the design for the life cycle and evaluate its impacts
  • Visualize and construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
Electronics 12 Applied Design
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: including social and environmental impacts of extraction and transportation of raw materials; manufacturing, packaging, and transportation to markets; servicing or providing replacement parts; expected usable lifetime; and reuse or recycling of component materials
Keyword: iterations Elaboration: repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
Curricular Competency Ideating
  • Identify and examine gaps for potential design improvements and innovations
  • Critically analyze impacts of competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations on design
  • Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Evaluate suitability of possibilities according to success criteria, constraints, and potential gaps
  • Work with users throughout the design process
Electronics 12 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential users, intended impacts, and possible unintended negative consequences
  • Make inferences about premises and constraints that define the design space, and develop criteria for success
  • Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
Electronics 12 Applied Design
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact
Curricular Competency Understanding context
  • Engage in a period of user-centred research and empathetic observation to understand design opportunities
Electronics 12 Applied Design
Keyword: user-centred research Elaboration: research done directly with potential users to understand how they do things and why, their physical and emotional needs, how they think about the world, and what is meaningful to them
Keyword: empathetic observation Elaboration: aimed at understanding the values and beliefs of other cultures and the diverse motivations and needs of different people; may be informed by experiences of people involved; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; First Peoples worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and practices; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; experts and thought leaders
Big Ideas Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes. Drafting 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Drafting 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Drafting 12 No CCG
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations
Content ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism Drafting 12 No CCG
Keyword: cultural appropriation Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
Content interpersonal and consultation skills to interact with clients Drafting 12 No CCG
Keyword: interpersonal and consultation skills Elaboration: for example, professional communications, collaboration, follow-ups, courtesies, record keeping, ways to present visuals
Content future career options in drafting design Drafting 12 No CCG
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Content design for the life cycle Drafting 12 No CCG
Keyword: design for the life cycle Elaboration: taking into account economic costs, and social and environmental impacts of the product, from the extraction of raw materials to eventual reuse or recycling of component materials
Content areas of drafting specialization Drafting 12 No CCG
Keyword: specialization Elaboration: for example, architectural, civil, mechanical, structural
Content file conversion between CAD and other applications Drafting 12 No CCG
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Content 3D modelling using advanced modelling techniques Drafting 12 No CCG
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Content modifying existing geometrical design using CAD software Drafting 12 No CCG
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