[Design and Technology] design fundamentals and applications

Thu Nov 6 09:55:54 EST 2008

Hi Gabriella,

I am so pleased I am not the only one who was blown away by this.  I like
your idea of the competition.  I was thinking of breaking them into groups
with different products and asking them to name fundamentals & applications
for each that the designer considered.  Prehaps DATTA could include a PD
session on this for next year?

I think I will do posters on each factor to display around the room next
year so the students absorbs it at every stage.

Regards

Melissa

Melissa Treverton

Parkdale Secondary College

Warren Road

Mordialloc East  3194

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[mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of VERSTRAETEN Gabriella
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Subject: RE: [Design and Technology] design fundamentals and applications

Hi Liz 

I saw your question addressed to Lorraine, I hope you don't mind if I offer
you a way of looking at it to see if this helps you too. Because I know when
I saw it on the exam last year, I thought 'Holy sh*t ! - where did that one
come from?' I could remember that it was something that was addressed in a
presentation on the new study design given at a DATTA or HEV session by
Lorraine, but only touched on. Certainly I hadn't addressed it with the
students and didn't expect to see it on the exam. But remember all the
students & teachers were in the same boat. 

Anyway, I felt it seems a bit blurred too the differences - until I looked
at as not a whole heap of  words but as the 'elements & principals' concepts
that we do in Art. All the students are aware of these ideas and
terminologies from there art classes and most get that. Its there a bit in
the VELS stuff for Technology too. So I say to the students - these are your
elements and principles in technology/design. So your design factors &
fundamentals are the elements. The applications are your principles - how
you apply them, how you are using your fundamentals/elements. The page is a
really a good summary of what parts of the study design are all about.  Read
it through with them or give it to them as home work to read, close the
book. Make it like a little competition with the students in teams - How
many design factors can your team come up with? How many fundamentals can
your team come up with for ...? Etc. They do know it, they and we just don't
realise that. I am going to do this little competition stuff with my year
11s as a part of our orientation for yr 12 soon. As a way of introducing the
topic to them. Will do ti with the yr 11s into yr 12 as well. 

Hope this helps. I don't think students will be expected to be able to list
out right fundamentals and applications - design factors, probably -yes. The
others - no. But then again .... maybe I should/we should check with
Lorraine. 

Regards 

Gabriella ( Verstraeten)

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[mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Keep
Sent: Friday, 31 October 2008 9:56 AM
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Subject: [Design and Technology] design fundamentals and applications

Hi Loraine,

The girls and I are looking through the design fundamentals and applications
tabled in the study design and need the classifications explained so we
understand them better. The two areas fundamentals and Applications appear
blurred and we can't see the distinction. Please explain.

Liz

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[mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Tran, Lorraine I
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2008 9:55 AM
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Subject: [Design and Technology] Salvage design

Read about salvage design at the following link:

http://www.indesignlive.com/articles/sustainability/salvage-design

Lorraine Tran

Curriculum Manager, P - 12 Design and Technology

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)

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