Talking D&T

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How D&T gives young people a sense of fulfilment, joy and purpose

The prompt for this episode came from reading a news item on the Sky website 'V&A director Tristram Hunt: Creative deficit is an education emergency that's undermining society' (thanks to Cal for posting this on the Facebook group 'Textiles Surgery').

In this episode I mention:

• Mentoring design and technology teachers in the secondary school edited by Suzanne Lawson and Susan Wood-Griffiths
• Free resources for my chapter in this book are available on my website 'Resources' page.

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Catching up with Polly Alden, NTU alumni from the PGCE D&T course 

In this episode we mention:

• Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) in Design and Technology at Nottingham Trent University
• Alden, P. 2016. Can tinkering benefit pupils’ learning? The SteP Journal Vol 3(2)
• E-Textiles Tshirt Project Resources

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An editor's dilemmas when designing a book about design and technology

In this episode I mention:

• Archived podcasts episodes with book contributors
• Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School
• Steve Keirl, Reader in Design Education at Goldsmiths, University of London
• Dr Mike Martin
• Professor Stephanie Atkinson

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D&T icon: someone who has affected or caused a change in the field of D&T

In this episode I mention:

• 50 Things that made the modern economy: Interchangeable parts
• David Barlex and Torbeen Steeg’s Disruptive Technologies Project 
• Henry Maudslay
• #DTchat on Twitter

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Talking with Gemma Taylor about STEM, projects, data and values

Mentioned in this episode

STEM Centre

The Smallpeice Trust

Women into Science and Engineering

Enthuse Partnership

D&T CPD at the STEM Centre

D&T Resources online

The ENTHUSE Celebration Awards

Engineering Habits of Mind

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You can find Gemma on Twitter at @GTaylorSTEM

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My thoughts about Amanda Spielman's speech on Wednesday 10th July 2019. This is part one, part two will follow after I've pondered a while longer!

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Mentioned in the episode:

Amanda Spielman's speech

Innovate project at the V&A

Meeting Technological Challenges (Ofsted 2011)

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Talking art, drawing and design and technology with Paul Carney


In this episode we mention:

David Bramston: Ideas Searching

Paul’s website

Drawing for Science, Invention & Discovery: Even if you can’t draw

The Idiot brain by Dean Burnett

You can find Paul:

• On Twitter: @PaulCarneyArts
• Via his blog Paulcarneyarts.wordpress.com

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Niekie Blom talking about teacher education and technology teaching in South Africa

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In this episode we mention:

Linkography - the methodology Nieke used in his PhD

Niekie's page on ResearchGate

Niekie's published papers on Researchgate

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329326592_Using_Linkography_to_investigate_students'_thinking_and_information_use_during_a_STEM_task
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324597300_Naive_Designers'_Information_Use_during_the_Design_Process_in_a_Low-Resource_Classroom

Niekie's 2019 PATT paper

South Africa National Curriculum

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Interview with Rosie as she finishes her PGCE and takes up her first teaching post

In this episode we mention:

Subject Knowledge Enhancement at Nottingham Trent University
PGCE Secondary Education (Design and Technology)

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Interview with Jennifer who is at the very start of her D&T teaching career.

In this episode we mention:

Industrial Design and Technology at Loughborough University

Subject Knowledge Enhancement at Nottingham Trent University

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