GCSE Key Resources: New and Emerging Technologies
GCSE CPD resource on new and emerging technologies, with slides and notes to help teachers introduce technological change, disruption and future‑focused thinking.
D&T GCSE Resources
New and Emerging Technologies
Enabling you to teach your students technological perspective
Ages 14-16
First published 2016
This resource is aimed at supporting teachers to develop their subject knowledge in the new and emerging technologies, in readiness for the new GCSE in Design and Technology. It forms part of a set of CPD resources aimed at modernising your design and technology curriculum at a time when there is a clear need for modernisation in the subject to develop students’ skills and knowledge and to help furnish the needs of industry.
The resource consists of:
PowerPoint (12 slides) covering:
- Defining technology – a necessary preliminary
- Teaching about new and emerging technologies
- Which new and emerging technologies?
- Using features of disruption to teach about new and emerging technologies
Accompanying notes.
This resource is one of a number supporting the new GCSE in Design and Technology including:
- Teacher guide: Preparing a Scheme of Work
- Understanding and choosing materials
- Systems and control
- Teaching for the contextual challenge
- New and emerging technologies
- Generating design ideas.
- Developing and communicating design ideas including CAD.
- Iterative Design in Action