Preserves, and Fundraising @ Dio
This course provides students with an opportunity to work with a client when developing a prototype preserve that meets an identified need. They will learn: how to create their own recipes; how to develop a production sequence through testing and trialling; develop confidence and competence with practical equipment; and investigate and apply practical techniques and processes to produce a preserve.
The course also offers students an opportunity to develop and manufacture a food product suitable for fundraising, for a specific client.
TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE
Planning for practice
Students will:
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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.
Brief development
Students will:
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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.
Outcome development and evaluation
Students will:
- Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
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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. -
Evaluate this outcome's fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation, using feedback
from stakeholders.
TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
Technological modelling
Students will:
- Understand the role and nature of evidence and reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.
Technological products
Students will:
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Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their
properties, and understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product
development.
Technological systems
Students will:
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Understand the implications of subsystems for the design, development, and maintenance of technological
systems.
NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY
Characteristics of technology
Students will:
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Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities
through collaborative practice.
Characteristics of technological outcomes
Students will:
- Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system.
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Understand how
these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people's views of themselves and possible
futures.