Learning goals

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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
• Select from and use specialist tools, techniques, processes, equipment and machinery precisely, including computer-aided manufacture
• Test, evaluate and refine their ideas and products against a specification, taking into account the views of intended users and other interested groups
• Understand developments in design and technology, its impact on individuals, society and the environment, and the responsibilities of designers, engineers and technologis
• Understand how more advanced electrical and electronic systems can be powered and used in their products
• Understand how more advanced mechanical systems used in their products enable changes in movement and force
• Select from and use a wider, more complex range of materials, components and ingredients, taking into account their properties
• Participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
• Investigate new and emerging technologies
• Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them
Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
Apply computing and use electronics to embed intelligence in products that respond to inputs, and control outputs, using programmable components
Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world
Understand and use mechanical systems in their products
Understand and use electrical systems in their products
Use a variety of approaches, to generate creative ideas and avoid stereotypical responses
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
Practicing strategic thinking
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to work with others
Learning to listen other people’s opinions
Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust
Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing persistent working
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Using technology resources for problem solving
Understanding technological system operations through making
Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Using technological resources for finding and applying information
Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Practicing decision making
Select from and use a wider range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks accurately
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