Learning goals

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The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.

• Practicing strategic thinking
• Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users.
• Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
• Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.
• Understanding technological system operations through making
• Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
• Using technological resources for finding and applying information
• Understanding and practicing safe and responsible uses of technology
• Practicing logical reasoning, algorithms and programming through making
• Using technology for interaction and collaboration
Using technology to express one’s emotions and experiences
Using technology for interaction and collaboration (also internationally)
Using technology as a part of explorative process
Practicing memorizing skills
Practicing fine motor skills
Practicing categorization and classification
Practising visual recognition
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Practicing creative thinking
Practicing to improvise
Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
Practicing to use arts as a way to express
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to notice causal connections
Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing].
Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures.
Apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control their products.
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Practicing to notice causal connections
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Practicing to work with others
Practicing communication through different channels
Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings
Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback
Enabling the growth of positive self-image
Encouraging positive attitude towards working life
Learning consumer knowledge and smart economics
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Practicing decision making
Practicing versatile ways of working
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Realizing the connection between subjects learned in free time and their impact to skills needed at worklife
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms
Practising to understand visual concepts and shapes and observe their qualities
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Practicing to find, evaluate and share information
Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Using technology resources for problem solving
Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.
Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings
Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.
Explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.
Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups.
Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.
Learning to listen other people’s opinions
Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.
Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Understand and use mechanical systems in their products [for example, gears, pulleys, cams, levers and linkages].
Learning to find solutions in social conflicts
Practicing to plan and execute studies, make observations and measurements
Recognizing habits that are good for sustainable living
Supporting the growth of environmental awareness
Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations
Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety
Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety
Understanding and interpreting of matrices and diagrams
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Practicing time management
Practicing to set one's own learning goals
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Practicing to observe spoken and written language
Learning about different countries and their characteristics
Practicing to look things from different perspectives
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