Pedagogy for Design and Digital Technologies - week 1

Verbs: What Students do	Associated Pedagogy
Assess	Students should be supported in developing criteria with which to assess ideas/elements/design that meet their brief. This requires scaffolding and support in thinking. It also requires collaboration as students negotiate a range of perspectives on issues and success criteria.
Manage	The implication here is that students are managing... and therefore the teacher's role must change to that of facilitator and support. Students should be managing their own projects, and will be required to develop timelines and plans to manage the process.
Investigate	Students will be supported in finding ways to use/improve/create by using investigation questions like how/why/when. This can be done using a hands on approach.
Create	Students will have the opportunity to create or recreate something using different skills. These could be computational skills, hands on skills, investigative skills. Teacher will assist this by providing opportunities to learn these different skills to use.
Design	Students will use strategies to understand design problems and come up with solutions. They will be guided to think about possible impacts of the design and how to better it. Teachers will guide this by the encouragement of investigation/outcome scenarios.