Knowledge, understanding and skills in each subject are presented through two related strands: Knowledge and understanding Processes and production skills Teachers select technologies-specific content from the Knowledge and understanding strand and students apply skills from the Processes and production skills strand to that content. The common strand structure provides an opportunity to highlight similarities across the two subjects. Knowledge and understanding Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Technologies and society Digital systems the use, development and impact of the components of digital systems: technologies in people’s lives hardware, software and networks and their use Technologies contexts technologies and design across a range of Representation of data technologies contexts: how data are represented and structured Engineering principles and systems symbolically Food and production Food specialisations Materials and technologies specialisations Table 1: Outlines the focus of the knowledge and understanding across the two Technologies subjects Processes and production skills Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Creating solutions by: Collecting, managing and analysing investigating and defining data designing the nature and properties of data, how producing and implementing they are collected and interpreted evaluating collaborating and managing Digital implementation the process of implementing digital solutions Creating solutions by: investigating and defining designing producing and implementing evaluating collaborating and managing Table 2: Outlines the focus of the processes and production skills across the two Technologies subjects
Knowledge, understanding and skills in each subject are presented through two related strands: Knowledge and understanding Processes and production skills Teachers select technologies-specific content from the Knowledge and understanding strand and students apply skills from the Processes and production skills strand to that content. The common strand structure provides an opportunity to highlight similarities across the two subjects. Knowledge and understanding Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Technologies and society the use, development and impact of technologies in people’s lives Technologies contexts technologies and design across a range of technologies contexts: Engineering principles and systems Food and production Food specialisations Materials and technologies specialisations Digital systems the components of digital systems: hardware, software and networks and their use Representation of data how data are represented and structured symbolically Table 1: Outlines the focus of the knowledge and understanding across the two Technologies subjects Processes and production skills Design and Technologies Digital Technologies Creating solutions by: investigating and defining designing producing and implementing evaluating collaborating and managing Collecting, managing and analysing data the nature and properties of data, how they are collected and interpreted Digital implementation the process of implementing digital solutions Creating solutions by: investigating and defining designing producing and implementing evaluating collaborating and managing Table 2: Outlines the focus of the processes and production skills across the two Technologies subjects