Grade 12 - Entrepreneurship

ENTREPRENEURSHIP 12

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Applied Design

Understanding Context

Defining

Ideating

Prototyping

Testing

Making

Sharing

Applied Skills

Applied Technologies

Design for the life cycle includes consideration of social and environmental impacts.

Services and products can be designed through consultation and collaboration.

Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes.

Conduct user-centred research to understand opportunities and barriers

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

Identify and analyze gaps to explore possibilities for innovation

Take creative risks

Generate ideas and enhance others’ ideas to create a range of possibilities, and prioritize the possibilities for prototyping

Critically analyze how competing social, ethical, and sustainability factors impact designed solutions to meet global needs for preferred futures

Work with users throughout the design process

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 and evaluate its impacts

Construct prototypes, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as needed

Record iterations of prototyping

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 and/or service plan or processes as needed  

Identify tools, technologies, materials, processes, cost implications, and time needed for development and implementation

Use project management processes when working individually or collaboratively to coordinate or create processes or products

Share progress to increase opportunities for feedback, collaboration, and, if applicable, marketing

Decide on how and with whom to share or promote their product or service, 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

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 problem solving

Explore existing, new, and emerging tools, technologies, and systems and evaluate their suitability for design and production 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 how cultural beliefs, values, and ethical positions affect the development and use of technologies on a national and global level

recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities

types of business ventures and social entrepreneurship

factors that can promote innovation and entrepreneurial success, including networking, product/service knowledge, and market analysis

characteristics of the global market and local economic trends

components of starting a small business, including registration and financial considerations

ways to protect intellectual property

design for the life cycle

interpersonal and presentation skills to promote products and/or services and to interact with clients

emerging career options for young entrepreneurs

ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism