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Grade
Curricular Competency Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems to evaluate suitability for their design and production interests Graphic Production 12 Applied Technologies
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Curricular Competency Develop competency and proficiency in task-specific skills involving manual dexterity and software processes Graphic Production 12 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Identify and assess skills needed for design and production interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine them over time Graphic Production 12 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Apply safety procedures for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments Graphic Production 12 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Share progress while creating to increase feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing
  • Decide on how and with whom to share or promote product, creativity, and, if applicable, intellectual property
  • Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals
  • Assess ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively while implementing project management processes
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: Share Elaboration: may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Keyword: intellectual property Elaboration: creations of the intellect such as works of art, invention, discoveries, design ideas to which one has the legal rights of ownership; also consider how others might build upon the concept
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for production
  • Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate production
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: project management processes Elaboration: setting goals, planning, organizing, constructing, monitoring, and leading during execution
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify feedback most needed and possible sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
  • Collect feedback to critically evaluate design and make changes to design processes and production
  • Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; other experts and professionals both online and offline
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: includes evaluating the degree of authenticity required for the setting of the test, deciding on an appropriate type and number of trials, and collecting and compiling data
Curricular Competency Prototyping          
  • Identify and apply sources of inspiration and information
  • Choose an appropriate form, scale, and level of detail for prototyping, and plan procedures for prototyping multiple ideas
  • Analyze the design for the life cycle and evaluate its impacts
  • Construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of inspiration Elaboration: may include aesthetic experiences; exploration of First Peoples perspectives and knowledge; the natural environment and places, including the land, its natural resources, and analogous settings; people, including users, experts, and thought leaders
Keyword: information Elaboration: may include professionals; First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; secondary sources; collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres both online and offline
Keyword: impacts Elaboration: including the social and environmental impacts of extraction and transportation of raw materials, manufacturing, packaging, 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
  • Generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create possibilities, and prioritize them for prototyping
  • Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design solutions to meet global needs
  • Work with users throughout the design process
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
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Curricular Competency Defining
  • Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
  • Identify potential users, intended impact, and possible unintended negative consequences
  • Make decisions about premises and constraints that define the design and production
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors, such as available technology, expense, environmental impact, copyright
Curricular Competency Understanding Context
  • Engage in a period of user-centered research and empathetic observation
  • Participate in reciprocal relationships throughout the design and production process
 Graphic Production 12 Applied Design
Keyword: user-centered 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: may include experiences; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; First Peoples worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and practices; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; users, experts, and thought leaders
Keyword: reciprocal relationships Elaboration: communicate with knowledge keepers for greater understanding of perspectives and history within the community, such as seniors, Elders, chiefs, First Nations tribal or band councils, and later career professionals
Big Ideas Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes. Woodwork 11 No CCG
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Big Ideas Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. Woodwork 11 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Woodwork 11 No CCG
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations
Content ethics of cultural appropriation in design process Woodwork 11 No CCG
Keyword: cultural appropriation Elaboration: using or sharing a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, or practices 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

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