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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...
Support our mission to save D&T, It is a sad fact that if you are teaching design and technology at the moment, you are teaching a subject in a state of national decline. At a time when our subject is arguably more relevant than ever, we have the lowest number of students ever recorded sitting the subject at both GCSE and A-Level; we have less than half the number of D&T-trained teachers that were serving in 2009, and an increasing number of schools are no longer offering the subject on their curriculum. This decline is...
The D&T Association Member new initiatives, Our main objective as your membership organisation, is to ensure the unique nature of D&T is maintained and valued. As it is compulsory between Key Stages 1 -3 we are here to support your planning and delivery, from Primary through Secondary school, enabling you prove its quality in your schools during inspections, addressing the changes to the OFSTED Framework. With a membership of over 33,000, join us in raising the profile and reputation of D&T in this country. Turn to us for advice...
Renowned Designer Ben Edmonds Takes Center Stage at Design and Technology Excellence Awards, In a captivating and insightful talk at the recent Design and Technology Association Excellence Awards, the spotlight shone brightly on Ben Edmonds—a designer, inventor, entrepreneur, and seasoned 'tinkerer.' Ben's journey unfolds as a compelling narrative, tracing back to his ambitious declaration at the tender age of twelve: "I want to be a lead designer for Dyson." Two decades later, he realised that childhood dream, achieving the prestigious role of Principal Designer at Dyson. However, Ben's story transcends professional achievements. A...
Head of Faculty for Engineering and Design, Andrew Kyprianou, Designed for Life podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen Here This podcast offers something a little different as we talk to staff and alumni students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers, a UTC situated in Coventry. For those unfamiliar, UTCs or 'University Technical Colleges' to give them their full title are government-funded schools with a heavy STEM curriculum focus. The original UTCs filled with students from age 13/14 (year 9) to...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Digital Sketching - using an iPad or digital stylus, see how to create sketches digitally, using a musical instrument as an example, and how to use a compositing technique. Digital Media Player - for this FT we will be accurately measuring and drawing out the parts for a digital music player....
Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design, The Association has been working with the Intellectual Property Office to develop this set of free resources helping teachers and students to understand the implications of IP in product design. The resources consist of five PowerPoint classroom teaching presentations and associated materials that schools can use and adapt, in which the students develop their ideas and realise the importance of securing the intellectual property. These can be used as a kit to allow schools to deliver this in a ‘business day’ in which students’ innovative...
Royal Ballet & Opera Schools Create & Design , Join us on this CPD webinar which takes you behind-the-scenes to explore the careers, creativity and technical skills involved in world-class production design. With guest speakers from the Royal Ballet & Opera Schools Create & Design, the session provides practical, real-world examples of how designers, production managers and visualisation technicians respond to briefs and solve complex problems collaboratively, to bring ideas to life for live audiences. With a focus on handmade and advanced computer models as tools for developing, testing and communicating ideas, the team...
Product Design Mid KS3 Y8 Mainly Designing - Analyse that, Product Design Mid KS3 Year 8 - Mainly Designing – Analyse thatStudents explore and evaluate the work of others through technical analysis of products. They can then design products that are an improvement upon a current product, or design something that takes the best features and combines them. Function and form are both areas for development within this unit.This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully refreshed and new titles added, providing teachers of Years 7, 8 and 9 with a...
Designing 130 Online PDF, Designing 130 Spring 2025 Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the ideas it includes.Contact the editor at laura.martin@designtechnology.org.uk for more...
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