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Mixed Genre - D and T

This is the default Chart. It is a good place to start if you seek to sample how Technacy Genres become more demanding in design and innovation capabilities and in project expectations. The Mixed Genre chart offers a broad guide for Product Design & Technology subjects.  More genre charts can be added by request through the CONTACTS tab.

Phases of Technacy Expectations and Complexity.

TECHNACY COMPLEXITY EXPECTATIONS are arranged in three broad PHASES (columns) to guide the Educator. They describe increasing exposure to contextual and systemic complexity of technological application.

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Emergent Phase

The EMERGENT phase of technacy development presents an early, developing or novice level of simple and tangible technology project activity. The learner encounters an aspect of at least one essential Technology Type or context of application that is novel to them.

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Competent Phase

The COMPETENT phase of technacy development is identified by contextually relevant codified skills and knowledge.

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Sophisticated Phase

The SOPHISTICATED phase of technacy development is identified by "the project's" high degree of complexity, high risk/high return scenario and/or expecting success at an extreme scale of application.

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Emergent Pioneer

Upper

The EMERGENT PIONEER is an 'enthusiastic beginner'. Identified by the lack of competence to apply in real time, any aspect of their ideas in a way that 'works' in an applied context for the purpose given.

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Early

Identified by overtly expressing ideas through basic juxtapositions of concepts.

Distinguished trait: highly unlikley to be realised in the given paremetres of the project or learner's personal skills. 

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Emergent Consolidation

Upper

The UPPER EMERGENT SKILLS  can only be accessed via demonstrable and consistent achievements the UPPER EMERGENT PLAY phase of their development, where the demonstrated achievements presented evidence of relevant capabilities for the project task and context brief.

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Early

The EARLY EMERGENT SKILLS phase is the typical preparatory phase of skill and knowledge development for learners who begin to identify basic ideas for combining of resoources towards production of objects or systemsThe Learner is expected to show principles of success based on understanding and i

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Emergent Play

Upper

The EMERGENT PLAY  is the typical starting phase for any learner whose background is as a novice or as a 'sceptic/despondent beginner' 

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Early

EARLY EMERGENT PLAY includes dispondency or low interest to explore the qualities, functionality and properties of materials and tools including instruments and devices. 

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Competent Pioneer

Upper

The COMPETENT PIONEER phase of technacy development can only be accessed via 'at least' sufficient COMPETENT SKILLS development that is contextually relevant to the project task.

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Early

Not consistently achieveing upper Competent pioneer outcomes, though demonstrating many of those outcomes through the course of the project.

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Competent Consolidation

Upper

The COMPETENT SKILLS phase of development can only be accessed via demonstrable and consistent achievements in the EMERGENT SKILLS   and/or the COMPETENT PLAY phases of their development, where the demonstrated achievements presented evidence of relevant capabilities for the project task and

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Early

Distinguishing feature: apprentice.

Formal vocational level education, or equivalent cultural peer review of accepted codified knowledge and techniques.

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Competent Play

Upper

The UPPER COMPETENT PLAY  can only be progressed via demonstrable and consistent achievements in the EARLY COMPETENT PLAY phases of development.

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Early

The EARLY COMPETENT PLAY  can only be progressed via demonstrable and consistent achievements in the EMERGENT PLAY phases of their development.

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Sophisticated Pioneer

Upper

The SOPHISTICATED PIONEER phase of technacy development can only be accessed via demonstrable and consistent achievements in the UPPER COMPETENT PIONEER and/or the UPPER SOPHISTICATED SKILL CONSOLIDATION phases of a learner's development.

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Early

Not consistently achieveing upper sophisticated pioneer outcomes, though demonstrating many of those outcomes through the course of the project.

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Sophisticated Consolidation

Upper

The SOPHISTICATED SKILLS phase of technacy development can only be accessed via demonstrable and consistent achievement in the COMPETENT SKILLS phase of their development. Solutions to complex problems are based on known and consolidated competence or well codified methods.

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Early

Not consistently achieveing upper sophisticated skill consolidation outcomes, though demonstrating many of those outcomes through the course of the project.

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Sophisticated Play

Upper

 

The UPPER SOPHISTICATED PLAY phase can only be achieved via demonstrable and consistent outcomes in the EARLY SOPHISTICATED PLAY phase of development.  

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Early

Expected to show independently researched and produced detail of designs that have numerous contextual variables identified and also accommodated with an evidence base to justify all aspects of the design.

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Development Domains of Innovation.

INNOVATION DOMAINS describe expectations in human innovation capability. They are arranged in three broad Levels (rows) to guide the Educator.

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Play Domain

The PLAY domain of innovation describes the initial phase of exploratory engagement and foundations to innovation attribute and prowess expectations in technacy development. PLAY capability is relative to the dominant Technology Type and/or applied context being learned.

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Skills Domain

The SKILLS domain of innovation describes the most common level of capability development by most people. This includes level of innovation attribute and prowess expectations in technacy development.

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Pioneer Domain

The PIONEER domain of innovation describes the highest, and most difficult to sustain, level of innovation attribute and prowess expectations in technacy development. PIONEER capability is relative to the dominant Technology Type and/or applied context being learned.

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