Senior Years Band - SACSA Framework

South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability Framework
Strand: critiquing
Students deconstruct technologies in order to expose the Key Idea
values which lie behind the intentions, design and
manufacture of products, processes and systems.
They critically examine the consequences of past technologies, and speculate on and explain the
consequences of present and future technologies and their capacities to shape human existence.
F • In • T • KC1 • KC2
This includes such learning as:
● critically analysing, including data interpretation, how technologies can lead to far-reaching
changes in cultures, communities, societies and environments T • In • F • C • KC1 • KC5
● conducting effective product analysis and product autopsy, in order to assemble arguments on
ethical issues in design and technology, and debate these defensibly T • In • C • KC1 • KC2
● advocating and defending, in the light of criticism, their own ideas and design proposals
T • Id • KC2
● interrogating their own beliefs and possible bias about technologies and technological practice
T • In • Id • KC1
● reviewing and evaluating the potential of nanotechnologies, genetic engineering, interactive design
software products, and robotics to displace humans in contexts of work, consciousness and
existence F • In
● appraising and challenging aspects of past, present and future technological practice (eg gender
discrimination and cultural bias, displacement, dehumanisation and depersonalisation)
T • In • KC6
● critiquing their own interests, skills and technological practice when considering their future
involvement in personal working and democratic life. T • F • Id • KC1
46 Senior Years Band — Design and technology