New tools and materials, what they make possible, and what they displace.
These are the statements the Design and Technology Year 9 syllabus makes about Emerging Technologies. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Additive manufacturing - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Smart and composite materials - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Automation and robotics - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Internet of Things - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Generative design and simulation - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Biotechnology in design - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Technology adoption and skills - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Ethics of emerging technology - Emerging Technologies, Year 9.
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Emerging Technologies are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Design and Technology Year 9 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Emerging Technologies is module 2 of 3 in Design and Technology Year 9. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Design and Technology Year 9 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.