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To do:
1. Home tab–click on highlighted
“Technology Education” wording in opening paragraph - What is the definition of
‘Technology Education’ according to the website?
2. 2.
Useful Websites tab – What is
TENZ? Who can join?
3.
3. News tab – Innovations: What is
crowdfunding? Who began the concept?
4. 4.
Curriculum Support tab – List a
teaching strategy to support children’s understanding of technological products
at Level 2. Post a link or the PDF to your blog – you will find this handy
throughout your teacher training and beyond.
5. 5. Information for Parents – If a
parent asked you for more information about technology education, where could
you direct them so that they could read more about what is technology?
6.
6. Teacher Education tab – What is
PTTER? What are the four elements considered to be foundational to technology
teacher education programmes?
7.
7. Student Pages tab – List one
example of ‘where technology can take you’.
8.
8. Case Studies tab – choose one
of the classroom practice case studies and write a brief description about what
the case study was about.
1.
1. Definition of Technology Education: Technology
education is a planned process designed to develop students' competence and
confidence in understanding and using existing technologies and in creating
solutions to technological problems. It contributes to the intellectual and
practical development of students, as individuals and as informed members of a
technological society.
2.
2. TENZ is a professional network which has been
set up to promote and support Technology Education in New Zealand. It is of
interest to all those working in Technology Education, working in a
technology-based enterprise with an interest in education, and those just plain
interested!
3.
3. Who began it? Anna Guenther. What it
Crowdfunding? You have a project; say you want to make a video for your garage
band. It costs $700, but you have no money. You home-make a little video of
yourself doing your thing and write a couple of paragraphs about the extent of
your awesomeness. PledgeMe will load this on its site, where it will sit on
display alongside similar things. There is a graph showing how much you have
raised and how long your appeal has got to run. If people like the cut of your
jib, they give you money. In return, you offer fun rewards - a copy of the
video, a signed set of drumsticks, a song about them, for instance - each
getting tastier as the amount given increases and limited only by your
imagination and applicable legal limits. If your thing reaches its funding
target, you get to keep the money. PledgeMe takes about an 8 per cent nibble of
this. If it doesn't fly, no-one gets anything and you are publicly humiliated.
4.
4. Provide a range of familiar materials that
students have used in the past and have them describe their performance
properties. http://technology.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-Support/Strategies-for-Engaging-Students/Technological-Products/Level-Two
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5. These pages: From Burt Munro (real-life
protagonist of The World's Fastest Indian), John Britten (a motorcycle
designer), Peter Witehira (an award winning technologist, battery creator) to
more recent examples, such as Orca, Canterbury, and Icebreaker (performance
sports wear), Alan Gibbs (of the Aquada aqua car), and Weta Workshop and Weta
Digital (creating film and television effects, sets and props).
6.
6. Pre-service Technology Teacher Education
Resource (PTTER), a framework that provides the foundational elements for
pre-service technology teacher education in New Zealand.
These elements are: Philosophy of
Technology, Rationale for Technology, Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum
and Teaching Technology
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7. Fashion design
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8. In the Cool Food unit students developed an
ice-cream product and packaging, recording group progress through blogging
