Steven Parkinson & Jim Smith explore the pedagogical approaches to A-Level Design and Technology. The exam board specifications are just a starting point, its important we offer much more in a technologically evolving world. Presented at the annual D&T Association Summer School Conference in 2015, hosted at Loughborough Design School. The presentation breaks A-Level D&T into "Do-Nows", "Ethos", "Teardowns", "Thunks" and "Iterative Design".

1. DESIGN
OR
MAKING?

2. IDEAS FOR
A-LEVEL.
JIM SMITH
STEVEN PARKINSON

3. DESIGN
ED.

4. OVERVIEW
PEDAGOGY, ETHOS, TEARDOWN, THUNK, ITTERATIVE
PEDAGOGY Focus
on
pedagogy
rather
than
the
project
ETHOS Good
A-­‐Level
starts
in
KS3
TEARDOWN Do
more
than
you
need
to
do
ITERATIVE Strategies
from
Industry
THUNK Less
So@
D&T

5. PEDAGOGY.

6. DO
NOW.

7. WHAT DO YOU SEE?

8. HEX
MAP.

10. HOT
QUESTION.

11. NEW PRODUCT
WHAT’S THE IMPACT OF DESIGNING & MANUFACTURIN

12. PECHA
KUCHA.

17. THE
ETHOS.

18. Y7

19. Y13

20. VISIT

21. LDN

22. STANDARD

23. LINKS

24. DIR

25. MINI

26. ALPS

28. TEAR
DOWN.

32. COFFEE
BREAK.

33. FORM. FUNCTION.

34. TIPPING POINT

35. TIPPING POINT

36. TIPPING POINT

37. FORM. FUNCTION.

39. ITERATIVE
DESIGN.

41. T: @IAMPARKSY
T: @DESIGN_ED
T: @JIM1982
E: DISRUPT@DESIGN-ED.ORG.UK
E: STEVE@TEACHDESIGN.ORG.UK
E: JIM@TEACHDESIGN.ORG.UK
W: DESIGN-ED.ORG.UK

42. DESIGN
ED.