Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Social, ethical, and sustainability considerations impact design and decision making.
Ethical marketing contributes to a healthier global marketplace.
Different technologies and tools are required at different stages of creation and communication.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
entrepreneurship opportunities
characteristics
creative, flexible, tenacious; critical thinkers, communicators, collaborators, risk takers
of entrepreneurs
creative ways to add value to an existing idea or product
ethics of cultural appropriation
use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice”, image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn
differences between invention
an original idea
and innovation changing an existing idea, product, or service into something new
barriers that diverse groups
for example, First Peoples, women, new immigrants; people with diverse abilities
of entrepreneurs face and factors that can contribute to their success
life cycle of a product from invention/innovation to the marketplace
ethical marketing
for example, socially responsible and culturally sensitive
strategies
forms of marketing
responsive, anticipative, and shaped to address customer needs
online marketing concepts
social media, viral marketing
customer needs, wants, and demands
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Engage in a period of researchmay include knowledge from other people as experts, secondary sources, and collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres both online and offlineand empathetic observationmay include experiences; traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; First Peoples worldviews, perspectives, knowledge, and practices; places, including the land and its natural resources and analogous settings; users, experts, and thought leaders
Defining
- Identify potential users for a chosen entrepreneurship and/or design opportunity
- Identify criteria for success, intended impact, and any constraintslimiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact
Ideating
- Take creative risks in generating ideas and add to others’ ideas in ways that enhance them
- Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
- Critically analyze and prioritize competing factorssocial, ethical, and sustainableto meet community needs for preferred futures
- Maintain an open mind about potentially viable ideas
Prototyping
- Identify and use sources of inspirationmay include personal experiences, exploration of First Peoples perspectives and knowledge, the natural environment, places, cultural influences, social media, users and expertsand information
- Choose a form and develop a planfor example, goals, sketches, checkliststhat includes key stages and resources
- Evaluate a variety of materials for effective use and potential for reuse, recycling, and biodegradability
- Make changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
- Record iterationsrepetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired resultof prototyping
Testing
- Identify sources of feedbackmay include First Nations, Métis, or Inuit community experts; keepers of other traditional cultural knowledge and approaches; peers, users, and other experts
- Evaluate choices and decisions
- Recreate or abandon the idea
Making
- Identify and use appropriate tools, technologiestools that extend human capabilities, materials, and processes for production
- Make a step-by-step plan for production and carry it out, making changes as needed
- Use materials in ways that minimize waste
Sharing
- Decide on how and with whom to sharemay include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and sellingproductfor example, a physical object, a process, a system, a service, or a designed environmentand processes
- Demonstrate product providing a rationale for the selected solution, modifications, and procedures
- Use appropriate terminology
- Critically evaluate the success of the product, and explain how it makes a contribution to people and/or the environment
- Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes
- Assess their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including ability to share and maintain an efficient co-operative workspace
- Identify new goals that result from feedback
Applied Skills
Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments
Identify the skills needed in relation to specific projects, and develop and refine them
Applied Technologies
Choose, adapt, and if necessary learn more about appropriate tools and technologies to use for tasks
Evaluate impacts
personal, social, and environmental
, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
Evaluate the influences of land, natural resources, and culture on the development and use of tools and technologies