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Curricular Competency Develop competency and proficiency in skills at various levels involving manual dexterity and specialized area of focus Technology Explorations 10 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Demonstrate and document an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures Technology Explorations 10 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Decide on how and with whom to share  product and processes
  • Demonstrate product to users and critically evaluate its success
  • Identify new design goals
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: share Elaboration: may include showing to others or use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Keyword: product Elaboration: for example, a physical product, process, system, service, designed environment
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify and use appropriate tools, technologies, materials, and processes
  • Make a step-by-step plan and carry it out, making changes as needed
  • Use materials in ways that minimize waste
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test
  • Conduct the test, collect and compile data, evaluate data, and decide on changes
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; keepers of other traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; peers, users, and other experts
Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Choose a form for prototyping and develop a plan that includes key stages and resources
  • Evaluate a variety of materials for effective use and potential for reuse, recycling, and biodegradability
  • Prototype, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
  • Record iterations of prototyping
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: plan Elaboration: for example, pictorial drawings, sketches, flow charts
Keyword: iterations Elaboration: repetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
Curricular Competency Ideating
  • Take creative risks in generating ideas and add to others’ ideas in ways that enhance them
  • Identify and use sources of inspiration
  • Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
  • Critically analyze and prioritize competing factors to meet community needs for preferred futures
  • Maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of inspiration Elaboration: may include personal experiences, exploration of First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, the natural environment, places, cultural influences, users and experts
Keyword: factors Elaboration: including social, ethical, and sustainability
Curricular Competency Defining
  • Identify potential users and relevant contextual factors
  • Identify criteria for success, intended impact, and any constraints for a chosen design opportunity
  • Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
Technology Explorations 10 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 research and empathetic observation
Technology Explorations 10 Applied Design
Keyword: empathetic observation Elaboration: may include experiences; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches of First Peoples and those of other cultures; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; people, including users, experts, and thought leaders
Big Ideas Complex tasks require different technologies and tools at different stages. Metalwork 10 No CCG
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Big Ideas Social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design. Metalwork 10 No CCG
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Big Ideas User needs and interests drive the design process. Metalwork 10 No CCG
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Content ethics of cultural appropriation in design process Metalwork 10 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 reading and preparing drawings, plans, and cutting lists Metalwork 10 No CCG
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Content computer numerical control (CNC) applications Metalwork 10 No CCG
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