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GCSE Key Resources: Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPoints, D&T GCSE Resources Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPointsEnabling you to teach your students to build control technology into their designs Ages 14-16First published 2016This resource is aimed at supporting teachers to develop their subject knowledge in the area of control systems, in readiness for delivering the 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...
Secondary Departmental Partnership How To Guides, These will be sent to you, upon receipt of payment, as part of your Secondary Departmental Partnership How to show the value of design and technology on the secondary curriculum How D&T uses and applies learning gained elsewhere on the curriculum and what a high-quality D&T education offers back to other curriculum areas How D&T provides context to prepare and engage the workforce of the future PowerPoint Slide deck to ‘sell’ the subject through assemblies How to… sell D&T to the whole...
Furniture Design & Real-World Skills Webinar, We were joined by teachers on a free webinar introducing secondary D&T teachers to a new ‘Inspired by Industry’ context made in collaboration with KI on ‘Minimising Parts’ in furniture design. Developed in collaboration with the Furniture Makers' Company and KI, this new educational context introduces students to practical aspects of furniture design, sustainability, and efficient manufacturing through the concept of “minimizing parts.”
Textiles Skills Centre, Dawn Foxall and Roy Ballam, In this episode, we are delighted to talk with Dawn Foxall and Roy Ballam about the recently released paper commissioned by the Textiles Skills Centre, 'Unravelling the Fabric of Textiles Education'. 🎧 Listen here As we seek to move the subject forward, building from the bottom up being our approach at the Association, we need to carefully look at where textiles fits into primary and secondary education. Our view is that we want to keep textile education within design and technology, a...
Textiles Early KS3 Year 7 - Technology in Society – Wider Use in Today's Society, Textiles Early KS3 Year 7 - Technology in Society – Wider Use in Today's SocietyThis unit is concerned with understanding the range and applications of textiles, including technical textiles. It aims to stretch students’ understanding o textiles applications and the products that result. Designing and making for users may be an appropriate additional task once full understanding is gained.This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully refreshed and new titles added, providing teachers of Years 7, 8...
Design Manager at Black+Blum, Joe, Watch Joe's video here Joe is a design manager at kitchenware design studio Black+Blum, specialising in designing and developing sustainable products, from the initial design phase right up to manufacture, working with suppliers and solving any issues. He enjoys the focus on user needs and his experience of studying D&T at school has helped in understanding the whole process. Play video.
D&T Summer School @ Loughborough Design School, After a crazy few months of planning, our exciting new D&T Summer School ran on the 11th & 12th July 2014 at Loughborough University Design School. Over 160 teachers attended from across the country, and from as far afield as Hong Kong. The event was very well received by all those involved including staff from the D&T Association and the very helpful and generous University staff. The feedback has been excellent. The workshop sessions provided some inspirational, practical and valuable D&T resources and developed...
Furniture Design & Real-World Skills Webinar , We were joined by teachers on a free webinar introducing secondary D&T teachers to a new ‘Inspired by Industry’ context made in collaboration with KI on ‘Minimising Parts’ in furniture design. Developed in collaboration with the Furniture Makers' Company and KI, this new educational context introduces students to practical aspects of furniture design, sustainability, and efficient manufacturing through the concept of “minimizing parts.” Real-World Connections The webinar featured speakers from the D&T Association, including Curriculum Consultant Paul Woodward who gave further details on the KS3 context...
Design Thinking Scenario Generator, Design thinking – scenario generator The design thinking scenario generator generates random words in three categories: User, Location and Theme to help students to develop design ideas for a product or system that addresses the needs of the user in the scenario (context). Clicking on the button in the Excel file (or pressing F9) will allow each of the categories to fill with a prompt, such as a bored child in a supermarket, or a visually impaired person navigating a park, etc. Students can click to refresh the panels with fresh scenarios...
From classroom to community: How design and technology inspired Algeria’s first skate shop, When LSBU graduate Muhammed Amin Boussetou first visited Algeria, he was struck by the fact that the country, the largest in Africa by land size, had no skate shops at all. That realisation later became the inspiration for DZ Skateboards, Algeria’s first ever skate shop. The idea grew while Muhammed was studying product design at university. At the same time, Algeria opened its first skate park, which gave him the confidence to launch the business. With family roots in Algeria, the project held personal...
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