iServi News | 18 November 2022 | Term 4, Week 6
The Design and Technologies Engineering Extension class has participated in a project based assessment to investigate sound with the aim of creating a Bluetooth speaker. Student were given skill-based activities such as technical drawing, electrical and construction methods to design, test and prototype their model that can be used to illustrate their understanding of sound. All projects needed to include electrical, structural, and aesthetic work that they had researched and applied.
Students are expected to be independent and demonstrate self-direction (the teacher’s role is to guide and advise, rather than to direct and manage, student work) to find their own solution. Essentially, through the discovery process and the application of knowledge, students needed to decide how to approach a problem and figure out what tasks they needed to pursue in order to achieve their proposed solution.
The Year 10s were also expected to work in collaboration and offer peer to peer critiques. The task required students to manage their projects (time and resources) while learning about core engineering principles.
Mr Rick Williams
Head of Learning Area – Technologies
