Technology education and the Australian curriculum

Title: Technology education and the Australian curriculum
Creator: Trevallion, Deborah; Sellars, Maura
Relation: Numeracy in Authentic Contexts: Making Meaning Across the Curriculum p. 405-422
Relation: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811057342
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2018
Description: Australia finally has its first national technology curriculum which is mandatory for all Australian children from foundation to year 8. The Technologies area has two individual but connected compulsory subjects: • Digital Technologies, where students use computational thinking and information systems to implement digital solutions. Computational thinking refers to problem-solving methods that involve integrating strategies, such as organising data logically, breaking down problems, interpreting patterns and implementing algorithms, all of which are integral to the mathematics curriculum teaching and learning. • Design and Technologies, where students use critical thinking to create innovative solutions for authentic problems.
Subject: technology curriculum; digital technologies; design technologies; critical thinking; problem solving
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409211
Identifier: uon:35965
Identifier: ISBN:9789811057342
Language: eng