Higher Order Thinking

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Reflecting on higher order thinking

Secondary discipline areas are often content-laden. Use Robyn Collins Curriculum and Leadership as a foundation, and consider the Australian Curriculum in your selected junior discipline area. Identify the process/research/inquiry skills that are required. They are skills that, according to Collins, are best developed through application to real-life contexts. Use the Aims, rationale and structure of the curriculum to uncover the global approaches of importance, as well as the content.

The process/research and inquiry skills for design and technology are that students are to investigate from a range of technologies, materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to consider the characteristics and properties of technologies and how they can be combined to design and produce sustainable problems for individuals and the community. Furthermore, consider society, ethics, and economic, environmental and social sustainability factors.  Students are to use creativity, innovation and enterprise skills with independence and collaboration.  Students are to respond to feedback from peers and evaluate design processes and designed solutions for proffered futures.  Students are to generate and clarify ideas through sketching, modelling, perspective and outgoing drawings.  The key conceptual knowledge: is problem solving and critical thinking through the process of analysis, knowledge, evaluation and application.

 

 

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