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Our E-Learning courses allow you to work at your own pace giving you the understanding and confidence to improve your practice in Design & Technology back in the classroom. Written by subject experts at the Design & Technology Association, our courses are made to meet the needs and high standards of a modern, busy school and count towards your ongoing Continuing Professional Development requirements. Each course will include a mixture of videos, quizzes and downloadable resources to help you develop your D&T...
Promoting Inclusivity in D&T at RNIB Webinar , The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) recently welcomed our Curriculum Consultant Lol Conway for an engaging and insightful webinar on inclusivity in D&T education. The session explored practical strategies to make D&T classrooms more accessible for students with visual impairments, ensuring all learners can fully engage with creative and technical learning. Lol, an experienced educator and advocate for inclusive D&T teaching, highlighted the importance of tactile learning, adapted tools, and sensory-friendly classroom environments. Key...
KS3 D&T National Strategy Module 2: Planning as a team, Key Stage 3 D&T National Strategy: Framework and training materialsModule 2: Planning as a team to teach the Framework objectivesFirst published 2004 The KS3 National Strategy (2004) provided the framework for teaching D&T and is the basis from which the new National Curriculum has been developed. This module looks at how to use the framework in teams and across groups of teachers to review teaching and...
Key events and individuals (designers, engineers and chefs in primary D&T), DT: What will you be? Session Content: A talk that will enable you to inspire young people to shape their own futures and change the world. Drawing on real life examples from disciplines such as engineering, architecture, food technology, textile design and computer coding, we meet some of the best thinkers and designers from the past and present. Learning Outcomes: We will also...
Skills for Industry - Perpetual Calendar, Skills for Industry – Perpetual Calendar First published 2017Ages 11-14 The Skills for Industry programme provides an opportunity to link secondary schools with a local industry partner to help Design and Technology teachers to develop and teach the industry-relevant knowledge and skills needed by the industry partner. The PowerPoint and associated 2D Design and Word files are a record of the project that took place in 2017 but also...
Get Organised: 3D Textiles - Key Resource download copy, Ages 11-14 yearsFirst published 2010 Based on non-woven textiles and linked to CAD/CAM and graphics, this offers inspiration and practical advice to design and make 3D containers. Design inspiration comes from the work of Hepworth, Gaudi and others, and teachers are free to adapt the work to suit the locality or students’ interest. The resource contains pdf and PowerPoint slides on: Overview ...
The James Dyson Foundation Primary Workshop, The James Dyson Foundation hosted a full-day, primary Design and Technology workshop at their impressive, glass-fronted headquarters in Wiltshire. This free event was delivered in collaboration with the Design & Technology Association and offered to primary teachers. The event was designed to link Dyson’s high-tech, inspirational work with the D&T curriculum delivered in primary classrooms and included how to contextualise D&T. Primary Workshop The day was packed with engaging activities
Chief Executive of ACID, Dids MacDonald OBE, Podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation. Listen now. We talk with Dids Macdonald OBE Co-founder and Chief Executive of ACID (Anti-copying in Design). At the time of recording, Dids was also Master of The Furniture Makers Company, the City of London livery company and charity for the furniture industry. We were joined in the conversation by Anne Sampson, who was the...
UK Creative Festival, For D&T teachers seeking fresh inspiration ahead of the new school year or students wanting to explore careers, the UK Creative Festival, taking place on 9–10 July at Dreamland, Margate, is a fantastic event to attend. This two-day festival brings together some of the UK’s leading minds from across the design, technology, and creative industries and includes hands-on workshops, industry-led talks, panel discussions, and a free Creative Careers Fair which is ideal for showcasing creative career pathways for students. ...
Five wonder materials that could change the world, Materials such as graphene and shrilk are so new that the scientists who discovered them hardly know what to do with them – they only know they might yet transform our lives. The recent Guardian article goes on to talk about the technological, and life changing, possibilities of materials such as graphene, spider silk, metamaterials, shrilk and stanene. You might have heard of graphene, but the others? For example, shrilk can already be formed into, “...strong, transparent...
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