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What is meant by technology – student understanding
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
In this Audio Snapshot Jan Barnes talks about how she uses Techlink to enhance students’ understanding of Technology during two ‘Technology days’ – one at the beginning of the year and one half way through.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/What is meant by technology/
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
In this Audio Snapshot Pip Timoteo talks about how she uses Techlink to assist in programme planning.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Programme Planning Pip/
Shikoba - Fashion steeped in values
Years 7-10 Soft Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Waikato-based clothing designer Aroha Wikotu has carved out a niche in the New Zealand fashion industry with a unique business model that emphasises core cultural values from her Maori and New Zealand European upbringing. By insisting on manufacturing locally, using sustainable and eco-friendly mat...
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Soft-Materials/Shikoba/
Year 13 Electronics - Student Showcase
Year 13 students from Pakuranga College have created a range of advanced robots to compete in a class sumo tournament. This project incorporated elements of electronics, programming and product design and the students also experimented with the school's new 3D printer to create many of their robots...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Electronics/sumo-bots-3d-print.htm
Years 1-10 Teaching Practice - Resource Review
Figure It Out is a series of combined Mathematics and Technology resource books for Primary and Intermediate level produced by Learning Media on behalf of the Ministry of Education. The illustrative 24 page books focus on activities that place “mathematics in technological contexts.”
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Figure_it_out.htm
Film prop - a scavenged push-chair
Year 13 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
In designing a unique prop - a period push-chair - for a feature film, Hunter had to consider the specific challenges involved in developing an outcome for filming. His final design incorporated mostly recycled components, to reflect the leading character's background and to fulfil the film company...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Materials/Movie_prop.htm
Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Year 7-13 Food and Bio-related - Resource Review
Software engineer and self-described geek Jeff Potter looks at the science behind food preparation and cooking. He discusses the key variables in cooking (time/temperature) and baking (air), creativity in the kitchen using ‘software' (chemicals) and ‘hardware' (blowtorches!) and shares tips he has ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Book-Cooking_for_geeks.htm
Year 7-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Trident High School is working with Te Taurawhiri I Te Reo Māori (The Māori Language Commission) to translate common Technology terms into words in Te reo Māori. This exciting collaboration is increasing the vocabulary of the Māori language while improving the integration of Māori into Technology...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y07-10-Middle/Maori_Technology_glossary.htm
Understanding the New Product Development Process
Years 7-13 Teaching Practice - Teaching Snapshot
Food Technology Teacher Sandy Goonan used the opportunity provided by her Endeavour Teacher Fellowship to focus on gaining a deeper understanding of the New Product Development (NPD) process as used in industry. She worked through the NPD process to develop a new yoghurt base with the potential to ...
Teaching Practice - Resource Review
'Engineering World' is a 40+ page magazine published bi-monthly by Engineers Media – the publication company of Engineers Australia. It contains a range of articles covering the latest engineering developments from around the globe. Articles are well written, in-depth and address all aspects of eng...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/EngineeringWorld-Magazine.htm
EasiYo - yoghurt-making system
Years 7-10 Food and Bio-related - Technologists Practice Case Study
EasiYo Products began producing a unique yoghurt-making system in 1992, a product so successful that that the company began selling overseas the following year. Over the years, other products have been added to the yoghurt line and the company now exports 75% of what it manufactures.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Food-and-Biological/EasiYo
Years 6-8 Hard Materials - Student Showcase
Students from Newton Central School in Central Auckland developed a hīnaki (eel trap) using modern materials in this unit that combined cultural research, testing, Art and Hard Materials.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Materials/Hinaki-Newton.htm
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
Kylie Merrick talks about how she uses the WoW material from the Techlink website when planning and teaching a Year 13 project.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Using WoW material/
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
Kylie Merrick gives useful tips on how to use and get the best out of the different areas of the Techlink site.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Using Techlink/
Using Showcases and Case Studies
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
Barbara Knight gives useful tips on how she uses Techlink with her senior classes, looking in particular at the Student Showcases, Scholarship Exemplars and Case Studies.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Using SS_CS/
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
Julie McMahon discusses the ways in which she has used Techlink to support programme planning and evaluation across Columba Colleges Technology department.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Programme Planning/
Teaching Practice - Audio Snapshot
Julie McMahon talks about how she used Techlink to support programme planning and assessment in their Level 2 NCEA Digital Technology programme.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Audio_Snapshots/Conceptual Modelling/
Year 11-13 Hard Materials - Teaching Snapshot
Nine Year 11-13 students from Mercury Bay Area School in Whitianga are constructing a kitset aeroplane in an exciting project that has involved the local community and industry. Teacher Karlos Bosson has been managing the unit since early 2012.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Aeroplane-Mercury.htm
Year 13 Graphics - Student Showcase
Samuel Blok from Waiheke College took the 2011 Top Scholar in Graphics with a three-part project that included a "transformable apartment" design, a matching piece of furniture and a visual presentation.
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/Graphics/Top-Scholar-Graphics-2011.htm
Years 7-13 Teaching Practice - Resource Review
What makes a product successful? In their book Deconstructing Product Design William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa attempt to answer this question by considering what is involved in successful design: “How it looks? The way it functions? Its ease of use? Or do factors like price and marketing ...
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Resource-Reviews/Deconstructing-Product-Design.htm
Design and Visual Communication (DVC) teachers at Rangitoto College have developed some new strategies to improve the dynamism and effectiveness within their students' sketching techniques.
www.techlink.org.nz/teaching-snapshot/Y12-13-Senior/Rangitoto-Sketching-techniques.htm
Year 12 Food and Bio-related - Student Showcase
Year 12 Food Technology students Sarah Adam and Danielle Sutherland are both athletes and know that good nutritional recovery directly after exercise is vital. They found that existing sports bars in the market didn’t meet their needs and decided to create their own 'repair and recovery' sports bar...
www.techlink.org.nz/student-showcase/food-and-biological/Racey-Recovery-sports-bar.htm
Years 9-11 Hard Materials - Technologists Practice Case Study
Soulo is a convenient, single serve wine sold in unbreakable PET plastic glasses, a packaged product developed by Auckland-based entrepreneur Kerry Johnston in January 2010.
www.techlink.org.nz/Case-studies/Technological-practice/Materials/Soulo/index.cfm
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