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Design, Technology and Engineering focuses on:
The subject provides a flexible framework that encourages students to be creative, innovative, and enterprising in their chosen context. They apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills and incorporate technologies to address design problems and challenges. This subject incorporates the transfer of interdisciplinary skills and knowledge and promotes individualised and inquiry-based learning.
A ‘solution’ is an outcome of the design and realisation process in relation to the chosen context. A solution could be fully realised or a model, prototype, system, part, process (i.e. procedures to output a product), or product.
Student choice content includes:
Application (app) development, CAD, digital animation, film-making, game production, graphics, multimedia, virtual reality, web design, aerospace, agricultural equipment, architecture, CAD/CAM, health and aged care equipment, industrial design, maritime equipment, software programming, composite materials, metal, polymers, timber, automated systems (e.g. programmable logic controllers), autonomous vehicles (e.g. model robot cars), biomedical engineering, communication systems (e.g. radio telemetry, Bluetooth), electrical systems, electronic circuits (printed circuit boards), electronic systems (including microcontroller boards such as Arduino and Picaxe), internet of things (IoT): web-connected sensors and devices (e.g. NodeMcu, WEMOS, Raspberry Pi), mechanical systems (e.g. using a variety of gear mechanisms), pneumatic, hydraulic, or fluidic systems, renewable energy systems (e.g. solar, wind, battery storage), robotics (building a programmed, autonomous, or remote-controlled robot).
At Stage 1 assessment is school-based. During a teaching, learning and assessment program the teacher makes decisions about the quality of evidence of student learning against the performance standards. At the end of the program the teacher uses the performance standards to make an on-balance decision about the quality and standard of a student’s set of evidence of learning.
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