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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‘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