Design & Technology
Design and Technology is structured around three main strands of learning:
- Critiquing
- Designing
- Making
The subject provides an opportunity to develop critical thinking skills, knowledge and understanding of materials, tools and techniques in creating products, processes and systems.
Through active engagement in practical design and technology experiences, learners develop creative and powerful ways of designing and making to meet identified needs.
Students also learn to critically examine existing and planned technologies through investigating and questioning the four phases of technology lifespan:
- Intention
- Design
- Making
- Use/misuse/abuse