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Keith Good
Keith
Good
Innovations in primary and Key Stage 2/3 design and technology education at the University of Greenwich, London
Loughborough University
2008
Design and technology
Primary training
New approach
Trialled
Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
2008-06-24 13:22:13
Online resource
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/online_resource/Innovations_in_primary_and_Key_Stage_2_3_design_and_technology_education_at_the_University_of_Greenwich_London/9344822
This paper describes an approach and new techniques trialled with primary and Key Stage 2/3 trainee teachers at the
University of Greenwich and further trialled with children. Students were introduced to an aspect of technology,
explored its importance and were shown the example they would make later. They then followed a ‘recipe’ to make
their working example (or core), gaining knowledge, skills, understanding and confidence. Crucially they then
developed a wide variety of different products made manageable by the common start. Benefits of this approach
seem to include increased motivation and scope for innovation and differentiation. Electrics and mechanisms are
used to illustrate the approach and an innovative technique for constructing mechanisms will be described. Work for
children based on this approach is to be found in the author’s Design Challenge series (Evans, 1999). The
presentation of this paper is to include working starting points and a five-minute video showing projects.