Curricular Competency |
Making- Identify appropriate tools, technologies, materials, processes, cost implications, and time needed
- Create design, incorporating feedback from self, others, and results from testing of the prototype
- Use materials in ways that minimize waste
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Electronics 11 |
Applied Design |
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Curricular Competency |
Testing- Identify and communicate with sources of feedback
- Develop an appropriate test of the prototype, conduct the test, and collect and compile data
- Apply information from critiques, testing results, and success criteria to make changes
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Electronics 11 |
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 |
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Curricular Competency |
Prototyping- Choose a form for prototyping and develop a plan that includes key stages and resources
- 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
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Electronics 11 |
Applied Design |
Keyword: plan |
Elaboration: for example, pictorial drawings, sketches, flow charts |
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 |
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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 creation and development of solutions
- Choose an idea to pursue based on success criteria and maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
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Electronics 11 |
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 identify criteria for success
- Determine whether activity is collaborative or self-directed
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Electronics 11 |
Applied Design |
Keyword: constraints |
Elaboration: limiting factors, such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact |
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Curricular Competency |
Understanding context- Engage in a period of user-centred research and empathetic observation
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Electronics 11 |
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 |
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Big Ideas |
Tools and technologies can influence people’s lives. |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities |
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Big Ideas |
Personal design choices require the evaluation and refinement of skills. |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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Big Ideas |
Marketing services and products can be designed through consultation and collaboration. |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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Content |
career options in marketing and promotions |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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Content |
interpersonal and public relations skills to promote products or services and to interact with potential customers |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
Keyword: interpersonal and public relations skills |
Elaboration: for example, professional communications and courtesies; technological or visual supports to accompany marketing or demonstrations at conferences; social media and networking |
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Content |
event planning, coordination, and facilitation skills |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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Content |
influence of corporate sponsorship, including naming rights |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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Content |
risk assessment associated with marketing products and services |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
Keyword: risk assessment |
Elaboration: anticipating and addressing user/consumer effects (e.g., financial hardship and social-emotional impacts) and environmental challenges |
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Content |
types of advertising that can influence diverse target market groups offline and online |
Marketing and Promotion 11 |
No CCG |
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