Technology & Design @ Lurgan College

 Department Vision & Aims

Technology and Design is a subject which lies within the Science and Technology Learning Area in the Northern Ireland Curriculum. It is primarily a practical subject, where the key activity is designing. It places a high value on the application of scientific and other knowledge to the solving of practical problems arising from perceived human needs and opportunities.

The Technology and Design department has established a number of aims. These aims focus on Technological Capability:

- To develop Technology and Design capability commensurate with each pupil’s ability;

- To foster awareness, understanding and expertise in those areas of creative thinking which can be expressed and developed through investigation and research, planning, designing, making and evaluating;

- To encourage the acquisition of a body of knowledge applicable to solving practical/technological problems through the processes of analysis, synthesis and realisation;

- To stimulate the development of a range of communication skills which are central to the technological process;

- To supplement Application of Number skills through the technological process;

- To stimulate the development of a range of making skills;

- To stimulate the development of a range of ICT skills;

- To encourage pupils to relate their work, which should demand active and experimental learning based upon design and making in a practical context, to their personal abilities and interests;

- To foster attitudes of co-operation and social responsibility, understand the impact of technology on the environment, and to develop capabilities that enhance the quality of that environment;

- To promote the development of curiosity, enquiry, initiative, ingenuity, resourcefulness and discrimination;

- To encourage technological awareness;

- To stimulate the exercising of value judgements of an aesthetic, technical, economic and moral nature;