Talking D&T

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This week I 'm chatting with Dave Parry from CLEAPSS about our future visions of D&T.

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How to contact/find Dave Parry:

Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

Twitter: @CLEAPSS_DT

Website: http://dt.cleapss.org.uk/

Futureminds: http://dt.cleapss.org.uk/Resources/FutureMinds/

CLEAPSS podcasts: http://cleapss.podbean.com/

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If you want to write about D&T but don't know where to start, this week I give you some advice about getting writing.

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Advice from Dave Parry at CLEAPS
Comments from Willy Adams at D&TA:

• Articles are typically 900 or 1400 words over two or three pages, with plenty of good quality images to inform and support the text. 
• We like to feature department profiles, showing readers what is taking place in different schools across the country; as well as case studies of projects that others might follow and take inspiration from. 
• Other articles might feature particular viewpoints on aspects of D&T, such as the value of craft-based making skills vs computer aided pure design work, and the range of approaches that teachers use in interpreting the curriculum and its delivery. 
• While Designing is largely focused on celebrating excellence in design and upon outcomes, D&T Practice is more concerned with processes and the delivery of teaching D&T in the classroom.
• The magazines go out at half term (Designing) and at the start of term (D&T Practice) with copy deadlines approximately two months prior to the publication dates. Further details can be obtained from [email protected]

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I love catching up with PGCE alumni, hearing how they are getting on. This week I talk with Sam, who's training year and first year of teaching, were disrupted by a global pandemic. Listen to her frank conversation about how its all gone.

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I've been posting about my new book Learning to Teach Design and Technology (have I mentioned it before?), which got me thinking about the types of books I read that relate to D&T education. In this episode I talk about 3 categories of books for D&T teachers: design and technology, design, and education.

What are you reading?

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Diana Choulerton, former Ofsted lead for D&T, is my guest this week. We cover a lot of topics, from creativity to making, curriculum to learning and everything in between. 

• David Layton
• Caroline Criado-Perez
• Ken Robinson - The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (we recorded this episode before Sir Ken Robinson's death last month) 

You can find Diana on

• LinkedIn
• Her website

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I know, it’s the start of term, and things are busy, but I wanted to share with you some thoughts about why doing a Masters could be good for you.

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Listen to Matt McLain talk about his research and thinking about D&T pedagogy. 

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Signature pedagogies


You can find Matt on:

THOUGHTS FROM A DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATOR

Twitter
Liverpool John Moore's website
Reserachgate
LinkedIn

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Are you a D&T teacher in a secondary school in England? Come and join our research project about the value of D&T

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Sign up for your school to take part in our pilot study

Do you agree with these statements about the value of D&T?

Sign up to take part in my D&T research

Chapter 2 in Mentoring Design and Technology Teachers in the Secondary School A Practical Guide

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Time for a summer break - but I'm talking about D&T!

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Podcasts with Eddie Norman:

1. TD&T12 How did we get here?
2. TD&T13: Talking design and/or technology 2.0 with David Spendlove
3. TD&T15: Do designers actually know anything?
4. TD&T18: How can design not be considered as central to engaging with the future?
5. TD&T22 What designers know and how they know it

Each month I send out a digest with an update on my D&T projects and research. Sign up to receive a copy.

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Defining or categorising D&T knowledge makes my brain hurt. This week Liam Anderson and I take about whether Christine Counsell's categories of substantive and  disciplinary knowledge work for D&T.

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Let's talk about knowledge in D&T - event on 12th August

Christine Counsell’s definitions of substantive and disciplinary knowledge:

'Substantive knowledge is the content that teachers teach as established fact – whether common convention, concept or warranted account of reality.'

'Disciplinary knowledge, by contrast, is a curricular term for what pupils learn about how that knowledge was established, its degree of certainty and how it continues to be revised by scholars, artists or professional practice. It is that part of the subject where pupils understand each discipline as a tradition of enquiry with its own distinctive pursuit of truth.’

Quoted from: Counsell, C. 2018. Taking curriculum seriously. Impact Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching.

Marc de Vries’ book ‘Teaching about Technology: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-philosophers’ (ridiculously expensive!)

I mention Rittel and Weber - but I may have the wrong source! 

A knowledge-led curriculum: pitfalls and possibilities- Michael Young

Other related podcast episodes:

TD&T11: Diving into the curriculum and D&T capability

TD&T15: Do designers actually know anything?

TD&T22 What designers know and how they know it

TD&T28 Eddie and Alison talking about D&T and epistemology

TD&T31 Are there different ways of knowing?

TD&T34 Kurt Seemann on classifying and organising D&T knowledge (Part 2)

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