Product Disassembly
Organisers: Paul Gardiner/Denise Reader
Target audience: Teachers of technology/electronics
Venue: Finham Park School.
Date: Wednesday 5:00 – 7:00pm on 17th May
This workshop will be led by Peter Branson.
The session will give participants an insight into how they can engage pupils in the analysis of existing everyday electronic products and thereby gain a deeper understanding of the electronic systems embedded within them and a wider appreciation of the impact of electronics in society. The hands-on session will show that even apparently quite complex electronic products can be analysed and modelled using the software applications currently available in schools.
The session will look a typical electronic products such as electronic toys, games and gadgets and a number of everyday household objects and endeavour to develop an understanding of:
| ¡ | systems thinking - systems analysis and systems synthesis |
| ¡ | some sub-systems functions - electronic processes and electronic products |
| ¡ | developing programmable systems to model electronic products |
| ¡ | the use of ICT to develop, test and evaluate ECT systems and sub-systems |
Participants will also appreciate how such activities can promote careful observation, analysis and evaluation skills, making judgements, reflecting (on past and present products), reaching decisions and consensus forming, teamwork, understanding of materials and processes, synthesis of ideas and developments of new products and skills in assessing the impacts (environmental, moral, cultural) of technology.
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