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Curricular Competency Evaluate how the land, natural resources, and culture influence the development and use of tools and technologies Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Evaluate the personal, social, and environmental impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Choose, adapt, and if necessary learn about appropriate tools and technologies to use for tasks Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Technologies
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Curricular Competency Identify the skills and skill levels needed, individually or as a group, in relation to specific projects, and develop and refine them as needed Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Skills
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Curricular Competency Sharing
  • Decide on how and with whom to share their product and processes
  • Demonstrate their product to potential users, providing a rationale for the selected solution, modifications, and procedures, using appropriate terminology
  • Critically evaluate the success of their product, and explain how their design ideas contribute to the individual, family, community, and/or environment
  • Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and evaluate their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including their ability to share and maintain an efficient co-operative work space
  • Identify new design issues
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: share Elaboration: may include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
Keyword: product Elaboration: for example, a physical product, a process, a system, a service, or a designed environment
Curricular Competency Making
  • Identify and use appropriate tools, technologies, materials, and processes for production
  • Make a step-by-step plan for production and carry it out, making changes as needed
  • Use materials in ways that minimize waste
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: things that extend human capabilities
Curricular Competency Testing
  • Identify sources of feedback
  • Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
  • Conduct the test, collect and compile data, evaluate data, and decide on changes
  • Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of feedback Elaboration: may include peers; users; keepers of traditional cultural knowledge and approaches, including those of First Peoples; and other experts
Keyword: appropriate test Elaboration: consider conditions, number of trials
Curricular Competency Prototyping
  • Identify and use sources of inspiration and information
  • 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
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: sources of inspiration Elaboration: may include experiences; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches, including those of First Peoples; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; and people, including users, experts, and thought leaders
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
  • Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
  • Critically analyze and prioritize competing factors, including social, ethical, and sustainability considerations, to meet community needs for preferred futures
  • Choose an idea to pursue, keeping other potentially viable ideas open
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: Ideating Elaboration: forming ideas or concepts
Curricular Competency Defining
  • Choose a design opportunity
  • Identify potential users and relevant contextual factors
  • Identify criteria for success, intended impact, and any constraints
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: Defining Elaboration: setting parameters
Keyword: constraints Elaboration: limiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact, issues of appropriation, and knowledge that is considered sacred
Curricular Competency Understanding context
  • Engage in a period of research and empathetic observation in order to understand design opportunities
 Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 9 Applied Design
Keyword: research Elaboration: seeking knowledge from other people as experts (e.g., First Peoples Elders), secondary sources, and collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres
Keyword: empathetic observation Elaboration: aimed at understanding the values and beliefs of other cultures and the diverse motivations and needs of different people
Big Ideas Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes. Entrepreneurship 12 No CCG
Keyword: technologies Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities
Big Ideas Services and products can be designed through consultation and collaboration. Entrepreneurship 12 No CCG
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Big Ideas Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts. Entrepreneurship 12 No CCG
Keyword: environmental impacts Elaboration: including manufacturing process, packaging, disposal, and recycling considerations

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