Concepts

Technologies Education

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Colin Powell

Concepts

Concepts

Curriculum

1. What is technology

  • Why teach about technology?
  • How do children view technology
  • Cultural interrelationship with technology
  • Rationale and aims

2. Discipline and General Capabilities

  • ICT vs Digital Technologies
  • Computational Thinking
  • Critical and Creative Thinking vs Design and Technologies
  • Design Thinking

3. Knowledge and Understanding, Processes and Production, Thinking Skills

  • Systems Thinking
  • Futures Thinking
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Creating solutions

4. Timings and progression

  • Subjects
  • Bands
  • Strands
  • Time Allocations
Curriculum

Content

1. Digital Technologies

  • DT Scope and Sequence
  • DT Knowledge and Understanding
  • DT Processes and Production Skills
  • DT Solutions

2. Design and Technologies

  • D&T Scope and Sequence
  • D&T Knowledge and Understanding
  • D&T Processes and Production Skills
  • D&T Solutions

3. Digital Technologies Content Descriptors

  • Sequence of Content DT by band
  • Scope and Sequence Example Year 3-4
  • Example Activities

4. Design and Technologies Content Descriptors

  • Sequence of Content D&T by band
  • Types of Solutions
  • Example Activities


Content

Pedagogy

1. Learning Theories

  • Behaviourism, Constructivism, Cognitivism
  • Activity Based Learning and Project Based Learning
  • Teacher and Student Centred Learning
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

2. Mindsets

  • Innovation and Adoption
  • Growth Mindset
  • Play Based Learning
  • Gender Bias

3. Activity Based Learning

  • Elemental Learning Design Model
  • Collaboration

4. Project Based Learning

  • Moonshot Thinking
  • Project Examples
  • Challenge Based Learning
Pedagogy

Strategic, Futures & Systems Thinking

1. Critical and Creative Thinking

  • Enquiring
  • Generating
  • Reasoning
  • Reflecting

2. Strategic Thinking

  • Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Growth Mindset/Moonshot Thinking
  • Project Management

3. Futures Thinking

  • Trends
  • Forecasting
  • Backcasting
  • Scenarios

4. Systems Thinking

  • Change Over Time
  • Connection Circles
  • Stock and Flow models
  • Simulations
Strategic, Futures & Systems Thinking

Computational & Design Thinking

1. Design as a way of thinking

  • ZPD and Flow
  • Design Processes
  • Decomposition

2. Design Thinking as a problem solving process

  • Design Thinking approaches
  • Types and Contexts for Designed Solutions
  • Design Challenges

3. Computation as a way of thinking

  • Papert and Mindstorms
  • Wing and problem solving

4. Computational Thinking as a problem solving process

  • abstraction
    • ladder of abstraction
  • data thinking (data collection (properties, sources and collection of data), data representation (symbolism and separation) and data interpretation (patterns and contexts))
  • algorithmic thinking (specification (descriptions and techniques), algorithms (following and describing) and implementation (translating and programming)
    • flowcharts
  • digital systems (hardware, software, and networks and the internet)
  • Interactions (people and digital systems, data and processes) and impacts (sustainability and empowerment).
Computational & Design Thinking

Coding Solutions

1. Approaches to coding

  • Manipulable's
  • Block Based
  • Text Based Coding

2. Applications

  • Software
  • Apps
  • Control Boards

3. Websites

  • URL's and Internet Protocols
  • Web Server
  • Domain names and addressed
  • HTML coding

4. Games

  • Genres
  • Sandboxes
  • Game Development


Coding Solutions

Automation Solutions

1. Automation and inputs

  • Makey Makey

2. Micro-controllers

  • Micro:Bits
  • Adafruit Circuit Playground

3. Robot Arms and Mobile Robots

  • Robot Arms
  • Bee Bots
  • Ozobots
  • Sphero's and Dash Dot

4. Drones

  • Micro Drones
  • Drone Application
  • Drones and VR
Automation Solutions

Information Solutions

1. Data Collection

  • Data Logging
  • Synchronization
  • Granuality
  • Compression

2. Data Representation

  • Characteristics
  • Properties
  • Patterns
  • Encoding

3. Geospatial Data

  • Maps
  • Geographic Databases
  • Location Awareness
  • Triggers

4. Data Security

  • Acceptable Use
  • Cryptography
  • Cyber-attacks
  • Hacking
Information Solutions

Engineering Solutions

1. Engineering principles and systems

2. Materials

3. Technologies specialisations

  • Architecture
  • Electronics
  • Graphics technologies
  • Fashion

4. Sustainability



Engineering Solutions

Food Technologies Solutions


Food Technologies Solutions

Assessment Solutions


Assessment Solutions