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Nuffield has supported innovations in D&T for over ten years and has published resources to support teaching and learning in all National Curriculum key stages.
David Barlex has run all our curriculum work and plays a leading role in shaping the future of the D&T curriculum.
The PATT 15 conference took place in Harlem, in the Netherlands in April.
This year it was a retrospective conference with delegates being asked to present papers that reflected on development in technology education in their respective countries over the past 20 – 15 years.
The delegates came from far and wide, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, USA.
The papers were wide ranging dealing with both national detail and broad issues relevant to technology education everywhere in the world.
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International Technology Education Association Conference: April 2005 Kansas City
This year, the annual conference, which brings together those concerned with technology education in school, was to my mind the best in recent years. There is now much more interest in design as part of technology education, coupled with a concern about the need for research to inform practice, and considerable interest in the role of engineering within technology and how this might manifest itself within technology education by means of strong links with mathematics and science. I came away with a strong desire to work more closely with colleagues in US technology education.
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The Specialist Schools Trust has recently published a report by David Barlex which highlights the challenges facing schools setting out to become Engineering Colleges. The report is available from the Trust's web site.
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The research tool developed by the Assessing Design Innovation research and development project led by Richard Kimbell at the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU), Goldsmiths College, University of London, bears an uncanny resemblance to the approach to teaching a Nuffield Capability Task.
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The Science, Technology and Society (STS) approach to developing an integrated approach to learning in the key areas Science, Technology, Study of Society & Environment being piloted in Brisbane has been heavily influenced by the Nuffield approach to primary design & technology.
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What are your pupils’ perspectives on using portfolios in their design and technology lessons? Do pupils think that portfolios enhance their designerly thinking and creativity? Do pupils value their portfolio as an important learning and assessment tool?
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What do Osnat Dagan, John Dakers, Wendy Dow, Mike Doyle, Bill Nicholl and Stephen Thompson have in common? They all presented interesting papers at the DATA 2004 Conference.
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If you don’t read Modus you should. In the final article of the current edition Torben asks, “Does the future need us?” and explores some of the implications of new and emerging technologies for the design & technology curriculum.
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HMI Peter Toft lists key questions and future challenges at the Adviser’s Annual Conference
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The 66th annual ITEA conference in New Mexico included the PATT 14 conference with the theme Pupil’s decision-making in technology research, curriculum development and assessment.
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Last Updated Tue, 9 January 2007