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🎓 GCSE & A levels 👩🏼🎓Teacher of Design & Technology
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👩🏼🎓BA Hons Nottingham Trent University
👩🏼🎓GTP University of Bedfordshire
🗺️Currently located in Spain
Inspire | Educate | Engage
🎯 Empowering teachers & students to succeed
🎓 GCSE & A levels 👩🏼🎓Teacher of Design & Technology
📚Key Stage 3&4
🎓GCSE & A Level Product Design
👩🏼🎓BA Hons Nottingham Trent University
👩🏼🎓GTP University of Bedfordshire
🗺️Currently located in Spain
IMPACT OF NEW & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRY will be covered within this video. Using the new GCSE core technical principles that will appear within the theory exam paper.
This video will cover 4 key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
A great video to upload to your Google classroom for a theory homework task (video includes a question that they need to answer)
Core technical principle covered: Impact of new and emerging technologies.
Point 1: Automation has changed our society
Point 2: What jobs won’t exist in 2040?
Point 3: Technology will also create new workforce opportunities’.
Point 4: Buildings and the workplace
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The impact of new and emerging technologies on ENTERPRISE.
IMPACT OF NEW & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRY will be covered within this video. Using the new GCSE core technical principles that will appear within the theory exam paper.
This video will cover 4 key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
A great video to upload to your Google classroom for a theory homework task (video includes a question that they need to answer)
Core technical principle covered: Impact of new and emerging technologies.
Point 1: Automation has changed our society
Point 2: What jobs won’t exist in 2040?
Point 3: Technology will also create new workforce opportunities’.
Point 4: Buildings and the workplace
//Next video will cover:
The impact of new and emerging technologies on ENTERPRISE.
We learn about a BLACK INVENTOR known as Garrett Morgan. This October we celebrate BLACK HISTORY MONTH with the UK. We continue to see how diversity influences DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
What is black history month?
How can we create diversity and equality without a more equal balance?
Who invented the Gas mask?
// Sources of information
https://www.zippia.com/graphic-designer-jobs/demographics/
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Garrett_Morgan.htm
Cam and follower mechanisms explained within this video. I will break down the types of cams and followers. By showing you the mechanism breakdown as it goes through the motion. So grab yourself a pen and some paper, let’s get started as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
Cam mechanism
What is a camshaft?
Cams and followers
Different types of cams
Types of cams and followers
How cams and followers work together?
What are the 4 types of cams?
What is an example of a cam and follower?
Examples of followers
Learn, How paper is made? What the 5 main stages of paper production ? And what happens when you use different plant fibres ? Example rag paper.
The 5 main stages to note are;
• Handling of raw material
• Changing wood chip into pulp
• Washing and bleaching,
• Adding additional fillers; likes dyes
• Processing of pulp to paper; spreading and drying etc.
So we have CAD, CAM and CNC…. Confused by how they differ?
Within this video as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
We will look closer into:
What does CNC & CAM stand for?
How they differ from each other?
And the advantages and disadvantages
WHAT IS COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)? So you want to be a product engineer? Or maybe an architect? There is a good chance you will need to know CAD means. Within this video as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
What is CAD?
Where is CAD used?
A typical CAD process: STEP BY STEP to creating a Christmas snowflake, file types (DXF)
The Advantages and disadvantages to using CAD
Hopefully you’re here as you have questions like; what are fossil fuels?
What are fossil fuels made of? And how are fossil fuels formed?
This video will cover many key points that could appear within your Design technology GCSE exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
Core technical principle covered: Introduction to fossil fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
Examples of fossil fuels
What are fossil fuels made of
What are fossil fuels used for
How are fossil fuels formed?
// sources of information
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/fossil-fuels
https://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/fossil#:~:text=Fossil energy sources%2C including oil,buried by layers of rock.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/lifetime-consumption-fossil-fuels-visualized/
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
This video will explain how solar panels turn sunlight into electricity. Touching on how do solar panels work?
This video will cover many key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
Core technical principle covered: Solar energy.
What is solar energy?
What is a photovoltaic cell?
How do solar panels work?
Who is Edmond Becquerel?
What are the disadvantages to solar energy?
What are solar farms?
//Other videos:
Global warming (Paris Agreement)
https://youtu.be/dB2LuXYMWf4
Fossil fuels
https://youtu.be/M2a26XPQyLA
Sustainable companies
https://youtu.be/bez8skMcpNk
Life cycle analysis
https://youtu.be/ixt3xi429UA
Gears explained within this video. How to revise for design and technology? Watch this video as I break down what is a gear? How gear trains work? As well as showing you how to calculate gear ratios. So grab yourself a pen and some paper, let’s get started as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
Gearing up
Gearing down
Examples of objects that contain gears
How gears work?
Why we use gears?
What is a gear train?
Pulley basics explained within this video. How to revise for design and technology? Watch this video as I break down what is a pulley? How pulleys work? As well as showing you the different pulley systems. So grab yourself a pen and some paper, let’s get started as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
What is a pulley?
How do pulleys work?
What are the different pulleys?
Single fixed pulley
Moveable pulley
Block and tackle
mechanical advantage
simple machines
Core technical principle covered: wind energy.
What is wind energy?
What is kinetic energy?
How do wind turbines work?
How is wind formed?
What are the advantages and disadvantages or wind turbines?
Where are wind farms located across the UK? Onshore wind energy and offshore wind energy
Learn what a life cycle assessment is? I will explain the 5 main stages;
Extracting and processing of raw materials, 2. Production and manufacturing of the product including packaging, 3. Distribution and travel of the product/ materials needed, 4. Use of product and maintenance and lastly 5. Disposal of the product at the end of its life, recycling or landfill.
It will recap on the impact and effects of these materials on the planet. From landfill, plastic islands and non-renewable resources.
We will answer the following questions:
What is a Life cycle assessment?
What are the main stages of the LCA?
What environmental impact does one object have on the world?
Why is Life Cycle Assessment important?
Why do companies complete LCA Life cycle assessments?
This video will cover many key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
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Introduction into the environment.
The IMPACT OF NEW & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN ENTERPRISE.
This video will cover 4 key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
Core technical principle covered: Enterprise.
Point 1: ‘Crowdfunding’
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/15-awesome-kickstarter-products-that-went-viral-for-a-good-reason
Point 2: ‘Visual marketing and retail’
Point 3: Cooperative
Point 4: Fair trade
Fairtrade | Ben & Jerry’s (benjerry.com)
Using the new GCSE core technical principles that will appear within your theory exam paper.
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The impact of new and emerging technologies on ‘Sustainability and the Environment’.
Introduction into sustainability, finite and non-finite resources and the impact these resources have on our planet.
This video will cover many key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
Core technical principle covered: Sustainability.
What is sustainability when combined with design and technology?
How does the earth provide?
How does this link with design and technology?
what is our current state?
https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/us-trash-production
https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/plastic-island-in-pacific-eighth-continent
Changes are happening
https://www.gopeople.com.au/examples-eco-friendly-packaging-designs/
Finite resources’
Non-finite resources’
Is our exploding population influencing new technologies? What is the maximum population the Earth can sustain? What that has to do with design and technology?
// How are new technologies are changing the way we manufacture products:
Only using renewable materials from sustainable sources
Powering the production of factories with renewable energy
Using only recycled materials
Creating products that use a low amount of energy
Making products with less materials and components.
Thinking about how existing or future products can be repaired and upgraded
Sourcing locally for materials, production and retailing.
// We will look closer into two companies who are meeting some of these objectives:
Island Bakery
https://www.islandbakery.scot/the-island-bakery-story/
Other food companies:
https://earth.org/sustainable-food-companies/
Green Toys
https://www.greentoys.com/pages/our-commitment
Other global companies:
https://www.virgin.com/virgin-unite/latest/10-global-companies-that-are-environmentally-friendly
Start your Design and Technology revision with the introduction to ‘New and Emerging Technologies’. This video covers the new GCSE core technical principles that will appear within your theory exam paper.
The video will cover 4 key points that could appear within your Design technology exam. The video has been designed for easy Design Technology revision. Ideally for both Design Technology teachers and Design Technology students to use.
Core technical principle covered: New and emerging technologies.
Point 1: Technologists must keep up to date with the science world (materials covered Silk and Kevlar)
Point 2: The role of a technologist is to embrace change and make ideas into a reality (Engineer example Percy Shaw).
Point 3: An excellent design technologist will explore, create and refine – making lots of mistakes along the way (Designer example Thomas Edison).
Point 4: There are centre points in history that have been greatly impacted by the developed of science and design (Invention of the telephone).
GLOBAL WARMING AND CARBON OFFSETTING EXPLAINED within this video as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
What is the difference between global warming and climate change?
The Impact both of these are having on us now and in the not so distance future.
What is the Paris agreement?
How is the UK meeting its Paris agreement targets?
How companies within architecture are making changes? (Norman Foster)
What are Carbon credits?
How do Carbon credits work?
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People, culture and society
//Other videos:
SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES, DESIGNS & is POPULATION GROWTH
https://youtu.be/bez8skMcpNk
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
https://youtu.be/ixt3xi429UA
What is sustainability?:
https://youtu.be/xqmdJNRIc9E
New and emerging technologies and the impact on industry: https://youtu.be/bPuYSK8KeQU
Enterprise the impact new and emerging technologies have on it:
https://youtu.be/lhOTuj8pjI8
// Other sources of information:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/16/carbon-offset-projects-carbon-emissions
https://www.fosterandpartners.com/studio/commitments/sustainability/
https://sustainablebuild.co.uk/sustainable-building-around-world/#:~:text=Sustainable innovations in the building,as other comparable office buildings.
https://www.bbc.com/news/58160547
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/paris-agreement
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/climate-change-frequently-asked-questions/#:~:text=The wildlife we love and,global food shortages and famine.
https://climate.nasa.gov/global-warming-vs-climate-change/
Are there any INVENTIONS BY WOMEN? Are there any WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY? We look into female leaders within design and technology and the inventions by women. We find out why there are still fewer female inventors and women in business within this industry. With the main objective; why we need women more women in tech?
// Sources of information:
http://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/18/five-women-in-designers-book-roundup/amp/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/03/16/inventions-you-have-women-inventors-thank-these-50-things/39158677/
https://medium.com/hh-design/the-world-is-designed-for-men-d06640654491
https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/ebot_auto_worker_demographics.pdf
//Next video will cover:
Environment with a focus on global warming and carbon offsetting.
//Other videos:
SUSTAINABLE COMPANIES, DESIGNS & POPULATION GROWTH
https://youtu.be/bez8skMcpNk
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
https://youtu.be/ixt3xi429UA
What is sustainability?:
https://youtu.be/xqmdJNRIc9E
New and emerging technologies and the impact on industry: https://youtu.be/bPuYSK8KeQU
Enterprise the impact new and emerging technologies have on it:
https://youtu.be/lhOTuj8pjI8
Free resource!
HOW CULTURE CHANGES DESIGN? The word culture can be built up of many things and have a slightly different meaning to different people. Within this video as we CONTINUE our GCGCSESE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
What do we mean by the word culture?
How does culture impact design? McDonalds global
The questions a designer perhaps should be asking.
Examples of companies that make cultural mistakes in design; Coors drink
Examples of great cultural design; iconic vespa scooter