E-Commerce 12

Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Applied Design

Understanding context

Defining

Establish a point of view for a chosen design opportunity
Identify potential users, intended impact, and possible unintended negative consequences
Make decisions about premises and constraints that define the design space

Ideating

Identify gaps to explore as opportunities
Take creative risks to generate ideas and add to others’ ideas to create a range of possibilities
Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability factors impact designed solutions to meet global needs for preferred futures
Prioritize ideas for prototyping and designing with users

Prototyping

Identify, critique, and use a variety of sources of inspiration and information
Choose an appropriate form and level of detail for prototyping
Plan procedures for prototyping multiple ideas
Analyze the design for the life cycle
Construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed
Record iterations of prototyping

Testing

Obtain and evaluate critical feedback from multiple sources, both initially and over time
Develop an appropriate test of the prototype
Based on feedback received and evaluated, make changes to product design or processes as needed
Iterate the prototype or abandon the design idea

Making

Identify tools, technologies, materials, processes, and time needed for development and implementation
Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to create processes or products
Share progress to increase opportunities for feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing

Sharing

Decide on how and with whom to share or promote their product, their creativity, and, if applicable, their intellectual property
Critically reflect on their design thinking and processes, and identify new design goals, including how they or others might build on their concept
Critically evaluate their ability to work effectively, both individually and collaboratively

Applied Skills

Evaluate safety issues for themselves, co-workers, and users in both physical and digital environments
Identify and critically assess skills needed related to the project(s) or design interests, and develop specific plans to learn or refine skills over time
Evaluate and apply a framework for solving problems and making decisions

Applied Technologies

Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems and evaluate their suitability for design interests
Evaluate impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of choices made about technology use
Analyze the role and personal, interpersonal, social, and environmental impacts of technologies in societal change
Examine and analyze how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies on a national and global level