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Notes on Translation
The electronic translation service on the York Region District School Board's website is hosted by Google Translate. The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 50 languages, although an impressive number, this does not capture all languages or dialects. The basic translation’s goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material.
The York Region District School Board does not guarantee the quality, accuracy or completeness of any translated information. Before you act on translated information, the Board encourages you to confirm any facts that are important to you and affect any decisions you may make.
The York Region District School Board is committed to parent, family and community engagement, and it is our hope that by providing this tool on our website that we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English and thereby enabling better engagement in public education.
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Technology Department
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Technology Department
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Page Content GOALS OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION
The fundamental purpose of the technological education program is to provide students with knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will enhance their ability to achieve success in secondary school, the workplace, postsecondary education or training, and daily life. The goals of the technological education curriculum are to enable students to: • gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts underlying technological education; • achieve the level of technological competence they will need in order to succeed in their postsecondary education or training programs or in the workplace; • develop a creative and flexible approach to problem solving that will help them address challenges in various areas throughout their lives; • develop the skills, including critical thinking skills, and the knowledge of strategies required to do research, conduct inquiries, and communicate findings accurately, ethically, and effectively; • develop lifelong learning habits that will help them adapt to technological advances in the changing workplace and world; • make connections that will help them take advantage of potential postsecondary educational and work opportunities.
FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
This curriculum identifies a number of fundamental concepts that inform design and production in various areas of technology. To address technological challenges and solve problems effectively, students need to take the full range of these concepts and elements of technology into account. As they progress through their technological education courses, students will come to understand these concepts more deeply, and to work with them creatively as they confront new challenges.
Fundamental Concepts
Aesthetics: The aspects of a product, process, or service that make it pleasing to the human senses.
Control: The means by which a device or process is activated or regulated.
Environmental sustainability: The creation of products or services and use of resources in a way that allows present needs to be met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. An important related concept is that of environmental stewardship – the acceptance of responsibility for the sustainable use and treatment of land and other natural resources.
Ergonomics: The design of a product, process, or service in a way that takes the user's well-being with respect to its use or delivery into account – that is, in a way that minimizes discomfort, risk of injury, and expenditure of energy.
Fabrication/building/creation: The act or process of assembling components and/or materials and resources to create a product or service.
Function: The use for which a product, process, or service is developed.
Innovation: Original and creative thinking resulting in the effective design of a product or service.
Material: Any substance or item used in the creation of a product or delivery of a service.
Mechanism: A system of connected parts that allows a product to work or function.
Power and energy: The resource that enables a mechanism to perform work.
Safety: The care and consideration required to ensure that the product, process, or service will not cause harm.
Structure: The essential physical or conceptual parts of a product, process, or service, including the way in which the parts are constructed or organized.
Systems: The combinations of interrelated parts that make up a whole and that may be connected with other systems.
The Ontario Curriculum | Technological Education, 2009 (revised)
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