Talking D&T

Send me a message. Talking D&T with Liam Anderson: curriculum changes, design challenges, and social media Transcript.doc Mentioned in this episode: V&A National Schools Challenge V&A blog post about winners of this year's challenge Play All Day: Design for Children by Floyd Schulze D&T Association ‘ Design Thinking Scenario Generator ’ Clips app Design skills You can find Lia...

Send me a message. Its another week of news - I have funding to develop my PhD work into something useful! Episode transcript In this episode I mention: Publications I have written about my research Freedom to make mistakes audio Sign up to: Receive my monthly digest with updates on my D&T research projects Take part in my research  Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future...

Send me a message. I am excited and relieved this week - I've submitted the manuscript for the 4th edition of Learning to Teach Design and Technology . Here's an update about what's new in the book. In this episode I mention: Chapter abstracts Transcript.doc Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Twitter @hardy_alis...

Send me a message. This episode is part of the series about design and technology and knowledge. Eddie Norman is this week's guest contributor and asks How can design not be considered as central to engaging with the future? Episode transcript Mentioned in this episode: Expert panel report Design epistemology and Curriculum Planning Professor David Spendlove Professor Stephanie Atkinson Profe...

Send me a message. This week I outline 5 big ideas about the value of D&T. Do your values of D&T match with any of these? Mentioned in this episode: Five themes: D&T meets our economic and domestic needs Generic and transferrable skills Technological awareness Create and recognise good design Personal development and enjoyment I talk in more detail about these values in chapter 2, Unde...

Send me a message. In this episode I explain why I am interested in the different values people have of D&T. Mentioned in this episode: Stephanie Atkinson’s paper ' Design and Technology in the United Kingdom ' David Barlex’s John Eggleston Memorial Lecture ' Dear Minister, This is why design and technology is a very important subject in the school curriculum ’ My writing about...

Send me a message. This is the first of four episodes from Eddie Norman about design and knowledge. Mentioned in this episode: The Art of the Engineer by Ken Baynes and Francis Pugh Loughborough Design School DesignMethods: Seeds of human futures  by J Christopher Jones The continuum of design education for engineering by Professor Geoffrey Harrison iD cards that were developed by Dr Mark Evans fr...

Send me a message. Listen to me exploring what warranted forms of reality are in design and technology (or more simply - is it true to say that every vac form mould must have a draft angle?) In this episode I mention: Christine Counsell’s article ‘ Taking curriculum seriously ’ Vacuum forming Transcript.doc Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connec...

Send me a message. This week I talk with Professor David Spendlove about why he thinks its time for design and/or technology 2.0.  In this episode we mention: PhD design forum Don Norman Ken Friedman Nigel Cross IDEAS ‘ We feel therefore we learn’ : David’s keynote   The locating of emotion within a creative, learning and product orientated design and technology experience: person, process, produc...

Send me a message. The theme of this week's episode is how did we get here? The 'we' is design and technology and I focus on how did D&T in England decline in status and student numbers.  In this episode I mention: Eddie Norman Curriculum review Design Epistemology and Curriculum Planning My chapter: How did the expert panel conclude that D&T should be moved to the basic cur...

Send me a message. I have pondered a while and here are my thoughts about Amanda Spielman's speech on Wednesday 10th July 2019 at the V&A museum in London. Instead of focussing on her deep dive questions about curriculum, I talk about design and technology capability and how it can be used in curriculum planning in D&T. Transcript.doc Mentioned in the episode: Amanda Spielman's s...

Send me a message. 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: M...

Send me a message. 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 Transcript.doc Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for fu...

Send me a message. 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 Transcript.doc Please offer your feedback ab...

Send me a message. 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 Transcript.doc Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting...

Send me a message. 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 Episode transcript You can find Gemma on Twitter at @GTaylorSTEM Please offer your feedba...

Send me a message. 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! Transcript (pdf) Mentioned in the episode: Amanda Spielman's speech Innovate project at the V&A Meeting Technological Challenges (Ofsted 2011) Support the show If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee...

Send me a message. 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 Episode transcript Please offer your feedback abou...

Send me a message. Niekie Blom talking about teacher education and technology teaching in South Africa Episode transcript 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_info...

Send me a message. 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) Episode transcript Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Twitter @hardy_alison or by emaili...

Send me a message. 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 Episode transcript Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Twitter @hardy_alison or...

Send me a message. In this episode I introduce Talking D&T and explain why I am doing it, who it is for and what it's about. Please offer your feedback about the podcast or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Twitter or by emailing me . Transcript.doc Support the show If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!' Please offer...