Technology

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Technology

• International Baccalaureate
• Middle Years Programme

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Introduction

• Technology technological developments have
  given rise to profound changes in society,
  transforming how we access process
  information,how we communicate with others how
  we work solve problems.

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• The MYP holistic approach to teaching learning
  acknowledges that inquiry problem solving
  contribute to students development of thinking
  skills strategies that will equip them to face
  the rapidly changing demands of the 21st century.

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• MYP technology aims to provide the means the
  context to help students become skillful problem
  solvers, who can appreciate the role of
  technology in everyday life society who can
  respond critically resourcefully to real-life
  challenges.

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• The MYP technology course intends to
• Challenge all students to apply practical
  creative-thinking skills to solve problems in
  technology
• Encourage students to explore the role of
  technology in both historical contemporary
  contexts
• Raise students awareness of their
  responsibilities as world citizens when making
  decisions taking action on technology issues.

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Characteristics

• Technology is one of the 8 subject groups in the
  MYP with defined aims, objectives assessment
  criteria.

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The Design Cycle
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• MYP technology uses the design cycle as the model
  of thinking the strategy to help students
  investigate problems design, plan, create
  evaluate the products/solutions that they
  generate.

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Product / Solution

• Model
• Prototype
• Product
• Systemthat students have generated independently

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MYP technology branches

• Information
• Materials
• Systems

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Information

• MYP technology enables students to
• identify
• access
• evaluate
• acknowledge a wide range of information sources.
• Use and/or communicate information to
• perform a task
• achieve a purpose
• meet a need
• solve a problem
• Information-based products/solutions often
  involve computer technology, e.g.
• desktop publishing (DTP)
• multimedia packages
• web pages

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Materials

• In many cases creating a product/solution
  involves using materials.
• Students are learning to
• identify
• combine
• experiment with
• shape
• handle different types of materials
• safely dispose of, or recycle, waste products.
• Some materials that the students will work with
  include
• Natural (wood, cotton fabric, wool, silk,)
  and/or
• Synthetic (metals, acrylic, plastic, acetate,)

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Systems

• A group of interdependent items that interact
  regularly to perform a task or achieve a
  purpose.
•  These items are
• Materials
• components or
• information that have been incorporated into a
  system in order to provide a solution to a
  problem.
• Some examples include
• Microchip
• Ballpoint pen
• Plotter
• Fire-drill procedures
• Simple electrical circuits
• Students recognize the parts of a system (input,
  processing control, and output) as well as the
  crucial role each component plays as part of the
  whole.

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The Curriculum

• MYP earlier years
• simple units of work
• skills development
• limited range of outcomes
• guided project content
• short projects
• students designing for themselves
• emphasis placed on individual parts of the design
  cycle
• contrived challenges

• to MYP final years
• to complex units of work
• to skills applied to design situations
• to open-ended challenges
• to student-managed projects
• to long projects
• to students designing for others
• to all stages of the design cycle fully
  addressed
• to real-life challenges

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Design Folder

• Is a compulsory component of MYP technology
• Is a compilation of evidence that accompanies the
  final product/solution for a unit of work

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DT Projects for this academic year Grade 8

• Jewellery
• Illustration
• Making light work

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Jewellery

• we are planning to take the students to a local
  artists workshop where they will be able to
  produce their designs in metal and a variety of
  materials. The project will ask students to
  consider the symmetry and balance of the human
  figure as inspiration.

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Illustration

• also for this project we will use the facilities
  of a local printmaker to create the cover of a
  storybook or comic that the students will write
  and draw. This will help them to develop the
  skills to produce sequential imagery and
  narrative.

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Making light work

• students look at the function of light, its
  history and how indispensable it has become to
  our everyday life. Then they will begin to design
  one of their own, either for themselves or to
  benefit others in a meaningful way.

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IT Projects for this academic year Grade 8

• Jewellery
• Illustration
• Making light work

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Spreadsheet Quiz

• The spreadsheet quiz unit extends the students
  knowledge and abilities in using spreadsheet
  software. Building on previous knowledge the
  students learn some of the deeper functionality
  of Microsoft Excel such as Conditional
  Functions. In this fun project the students get
  to develop their own quiz.

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Sketchup

• Sketchup is a great computer design tool
  developed by Google. Students get to design their
  own bedrooms.

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Photoshop

• Students learn about digital imaging and
  manipulation software and ultimately build on
  what they have learned from DT to come up with
  some interesting digital logos.

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Assessment will be based on the following
criteria

• Investigation,
• designing,
• planning,
• creating,
• evaluating,
• attitudes displayed in technology.