Making t-shirts.

Creating t-shirts prints was interesting and meaningful.

However this is what i would change:
1- Change it to a project, so students can spend more time designing, planning, and editing their ideas.

2- Organize the process of ironing and printing so that there wasn't a cluster. For example check before sending the students on the way.

3- Depending on age level just have one adult doing the ironing. 

 

Mr Davies summed up the burns reading perfectly. Check it out.

 

 

Zac's first blog.

My first blog.

Welcome.

I created this blog for a university paper, EDCR 332 - Curriculum Content and Pedagogy.

Our lecture has asked us to reflect on the Reading by Janet Burns - Technology, Intervening the world (1997).

Overall I found this a very heavy read. It was a lot of information to process. Through out this reading I was trying to identify what was important (as you do). Below are my opinions.

It starts by describing the difference between an invention and innovation. Innovation is a complex process, where as invention is a flash of inspiration. Therefore technology is innovation. Whaaaat does this mean?

This quote by Thomas Edison help me understand the above statement. "Invention is 99 per cent perspiration and only 1 per cent inspiration (Burns, 1997, p. 21). Technology  is making something to meet a need. If done right it is a complex process that involves a lot of work. You have to think about the: social impact - ethics (intrinsic); the organizational aspect, and technological aspect - e.g. barriers for material.

Its all quite confusing but to break it down so I can understand it.

Technology is an advanced process of problem solving. 

It changes the world and science helps us understand it (Burns, 1997).

First post over.

Thanks.