Technology and Enterprise Learning Area
Introduction
What is Technology? It is the use of knowledge to produce better or new products.
What is Enterprise? It is a set of qualities or competencies that enable individuals to be flexible, creative, and adaptable in the face of change.
What will students be doing? In all of these areas students will work using a ‘Technology Process’, which requires them to investigate, devise, produce and evaluate the tasks they do.
How will students be assessed? Results are gathered using portfolios, practical work samples, and student observation.
Students will study a composite year-long course with components of work in Design & Technology, Home Economics, Business Studies and Computing which is outlined in the table below.
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Home Economics |
Business Studies |
Computing |
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Web Page Creation
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Electives
In addition, those students not taking LOTE, may choose one or two (maximum) extra courses from those listed below.
- Design & Technology – Composite Material
- Home Economics – International Foods
- Business Studies – Legal Studies
- Computing - Programming Principles
Brief Course Descriptions
Design & Technology
Students will build manipulative skills by doing a variety of interesting tasks. These will be done by using a ‘Technology Process’.
Home Economics
Look at snacking in our society. You will have opportunities to individually be creative when preparing snack foods.
Take a trip around the world by investigating the renowned foods of various countries. You will prepare and sample a vide variety of foods from other countries and gain understanding of how the individual food cultures have developed.
Business Studies
This gives an insight into the small business sector. Students experience the practical aspects of owning a business and the creation of saleable products.
Students examine areas of the law that are of interest and are relevant to the young person. It covers areas such as criminal, family, industrial and consumer law, explaining a person's rights and responsibilities.
Computing
WEB PAGE YEAR 10
All student in Year 10 will complete this coursePrerequisite : None
Course Description
This course initially teaches students how toUse a popular Graphics viewing program to access and copy selected graphics form a large graphics library
Use a popular graphics program to create, design and modify graphic items that would be of use in a Web Page
Learn to use a program used to create Web pages - called an HTML editor.
Whilst Students may make Web Pages in other subjects making programs like Front Page for creating those Web Pages (which is a perfectly valid way of doing things) - it is a program that insulates Students from the underlying HTML.
Students that create Web Pages as a part of a Computing Subject they will be dealing directly with the HTML so that
- They understand more about how the Internet works
- They understand how their Web page works
- They understand Why their Web Page works
- Understand a range of other computing concepts - ones that they would be insulated from if they used a What You See Is What You Get program
Assessment: When students have demonstrated skills in using the above programs, they will then start the Open Ended Web Page Task which is the Major Assessment Items for the course. In this Task they will have the opportunity to design, produce and evaluate their own web page.
PROGRAMMING PRINCIPLES YEAR 10 (ELECTIVE)
Prerequisites: A healthy desire to learn more about computers and they way that they are programmed
Course Description
This course is recommended to any student who may select Information Systems in Year 11 and/or 12 so as to provide the necessary background in programming.It is also recommended for students to are interested in programming but who will not follow on to Information Systems due to subject choice limitations.
The course concentrates on a logical approach to programming - which includes a modular structure and top-down design concepts.
The initial part of the course is skilling in Pascal including concepts as the binary, compilers, variables and constants, data types, the programming constructs of sequences, decision making and iteration (in their various forms), program structure (including procedures and functions) and for those that get this far an introduction to arrays and records, saving data files to disk, menus, sorting and searching algorithms etc.
Students will have the opportunity to write a program of their own design and to work through problem solving situations to implement their design.
All students will work at their own pace and will receive personal help from their teacher, and will be able to do extra work at home on their programs
Assessment: following the initial skill phase the students are given an open ended Programming Tasks, which they must Design, Produce and Evaluate.