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Between Year 7 and Year 11, you will be following the International Baccalaureate´s Middle Years Programme. The offical guide is attached at the bottom of this page.
IB Mission Statement
"The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
Course Description
Technology and technological developments have given rise to profound changes in society,
transforming how we access and process information, how we communicate with others and how we work and solve problems.
The MYP holistic approach to teaching and learning acknowledges that inquiry and problem solving contribute to students’ development of thinking skills and strategies that will equip them to face the rapidly changing demands of the 21st century.
MYP technology aims to provide the means and the context to help students become skillful problem solvers, who can appreciate the role of technology in everyday life and society and who can respond critically and resourcefully to real‐life challenges.
The MYP technology course intends to:
challenge all students to apply practical and creative‐thinking skills to solve problems utilizing different forms of technology
encourage students to explore the role of technology in both historical and contemporary contexts raise students’ awareness of their responsibilities as world citizens when making decisions and taking action on technology issues.
Students will be expected to investigate various types of problems and use the Technology Design Cycle as a tool to design, plan, create and evaluate products/solutions. A product/solution can be defined as a model, prototype, product or system that students have generated independently.
MYP technology is structured into three main branches: information, materials and systems. Over the 5 years of the MYP, the range of projects that students design and create contain a balance of information-, materials- and systems-based products/solutions.
Information
MYP technology enables students to identify, access, evaluate and acknowledge a wide range of information sources. Information-based products/solutions use and/or communicate information to perform a task, achieve a purpose, meet a need or solve a problem.
Materials
In many cases, creating a product/solution involves using materials. These may be natural or synthetic, and will differ according to geographical location, culture and available resources. Students should be able to identify, combine, experiment with, shape and handle different types of materials, and safely dispose of, or recycle, waste products. Students must select processing techniques that are appropriate to both the chosen material(s) and the product/solution to be created.
Systems
Systems-based products/solutions involve a group of interdependent items that interact regularly to perform a task or achieve a purpose. These items are materials, components or information that have been incorporated into a system in order to provide a solution to a problem. Systems in our environment are very diverse: from a microchip to an aircraft flight-control system; from a ballpoint pen to a plotter. Students need to recognize the parts of a system (input, processing and control, and output) as well as the crucial role each component plays as part of the whole.
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