Compact Audio Design
Havelock North High School
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This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about amplification in audio devices and to develop skills in designing and manufacturing a prototype sound system. It requires students to: assemble a kitset amplifier circuit and contain it in a case which has prescribed specifications; and to design a prototype sound projection system that incorporates the amplifier and speaker(s) for use in a specific location.
Technological Practice
- Brief Development
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Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms
of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.
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Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms
- Planning for Practice
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Critically analyse their own and others' past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective
use of planning tools. -
Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to
completion.
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Critically analyse their own and others' past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective
- Outcome Development and Evaluation
- Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
- Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialling in the physical and social environments.
- Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome.
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Evaluate this outcome's fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from
stakeholders.
Technological Knowledge
- Technological Modelling
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Understand that functional models are used to represent reality and test design concepts and that prototypes are
used to test technological outcomes.
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Understand that functional models are used to represent reality and test design concepts and that prototypes are
- Technological Products
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Understand that technological products are made from materials that have performance
properties.
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Understand that technological products are made from materials that have performance
Nature of Technology
- Characteristics of technological outcomes
- Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system.
- Understand how these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people's views of themselves and possible futures.