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Modern D&T
What is it?
Ofsted 2011Secondary schools should:• ensure that teachers have access to high-quality subject professional
development to enable them to teach students about modern and smart materials, electronics, and systems and control, make effective use of computer aided design and manufacture resources, and stay up to date with developments in research and innovation
• provide a balanced D&T curriculum that is well pitched to build upon the primary curriculum and includes the technologically challenging and more modern parts of the subject so that students can apply their scientific understanding and develop greater technical rigour in designing and making
• make sure that D&T resources are up to date to reflect 21st-century technology, are used effectively and represent good value for money.
The maverick
• Design & technology is a maverick in the curriculum.
• It insists on being neither a specialist art nor a specialist science.
• The design sub-label leans towards the arts. • The technology towards the sciences. • But neither will do as a natural home.• It is restive, itinerant, non-discipline.
(Barlex, 2003)
Design decisions in design & technology
MarketingWho it’s for
ConstructionalHow it fits together
ConceptualWhat it does
TechnicalHow it works
AestheticWhat it looks like
Designing without making
Designing and making
Making without designing
Exploring technology and society
Developing the ability to make design decisions
Making without designing
Would Year 7 like to make a scooter they could ride out of the workshop?
Designing without makingTechnology
Society
Markets
People
Designing without making
Which is more sustainable a towel or an electric powered hair dryer? Design a cradle to cradle hair dryer
Which is more sustainable, a broom or a vacuum cleaner? Design a cradle to cradle vacuum cleaner.
Designing and making
Outcomes …AffordableManageableHigh learning valueIntriguingDesirableNon-trivial
Exploit phenomena Embrace modern technology
Involve life cycle considerations
Have utility
Conceptual
Technical
Aesthetic
Constructional
Marketing
Design decisions
Designing and Making
• Can be seen as ‘traditional’ D&T• Do all of the pupils have to make their own
design?• Can pupils work collaboratively on collecting
information?• Can one situation lead to many solutions?
D&T Key Resources
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Some (resource) answers ...
‘15 Below Coat’ - for the homeless
Exploring Technology in Society
Pedal to the well, fill up the tank and by the time you’re home you have 8 litres of purified water.
Principles of effective peer review
1. Mutual trust and respect2. Active use of criteria and standards 3. Constructing commentaries in relation to
peer judgements4. Both analytic (componential) and holistic
(configurational) judgements about quality
5. Dialogue around the workwww.reap.ac.uk/PEER.aspx