Students use technology to access information, to calculate, and to enhance the presentation of ideas. Strategies that require solving design and production problems. Students identify needs, pose real or invented problems of their own, and respond to problems presented by the teacher. The problems students identify or are assigned in technology education involve improving existing products and systems, as well as designing and developing new ones. The following diagrams present a variety of approaches to describe problem solving in technology education.
Some models suggest that problem solving is a set of clearly defined and prescribed steps.
This is rarely the case. Some specialized problems are approached in unique ways. Next Page Copyright 1998. All Rights Reserved. BC MOE Curriculum Branch .