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Term 2 HOD Workshop Literacy in the Curriculum Lesley Pearce 16 th May 2011

Term 2 HOD Workshop Literacy in the Curriculum Lesley Pearce 16 th May 2011. What is the Question?. Answer is: Chocolate fish What questions could have been asked to get this answer? In groups discuss, choose one to ask Winner gets the fish. Answer!. Reverse engineering.

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Term 2 HOD Workshop Literacy in the Curriculum Lesley Pearce 16 th May 2011

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  1. Term 2 HOD Workshop Literacy in the Curriculum Lesley Pearce 16th May 2011

  2. What is the Question? • Answer is: Chocolate fish • What questions could have been asked to get this answer? • In groups discuss, choose one to ask • Winner gets the fish

  3. Answer!

  4. Reverse engineering • If you were to make a toaster from scratch, that is from the raw materials, which questions would you ask yourself?

  5. What materials would you expect be used in a toaster? • How many separate components would you find in a cheap plastic toaster?

  6. Reverse Engineering – a toaster • Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch • http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toaster_from_scratch.html • What questions did he ask of himself?

  7. What questions did these innovators ask of themselves?

  8. Cultivating enquiring minds Literacy strategies • Sentence starters • Linking words • In groups discuss possible sentence starters that would assist students to do the following

  9. Identify • Colour, Size, Shape, Feel, Smell, Sound

  10. Brief development • What questions would help a student develop a brief and/or attributes? • What questions would help to identify the physical and functional attributes? • What questions would help students to explain the physical and functional attributes? • What questions would help students to justify why the identified physical and functional attributes are needed for the outcome?

  11. Questions for attributes

  12. An analysis of the issue understand what needs to be investigated • Who would the users be? • Why would they need this product? • Where would the product be used? • What lifestyles do the users lead? • What similar products are available on the market? • What would the user want from this product?

  13. How often will the product be used? • How much would the user spend on the product? • Do the existing products cater for the user? • What are the differences between existing products? • Are there experts or professionals from whom you could seek advice? • Are there any popular trends or themes relating to the user or the existing products?

  14. Questions for attributes and specifications

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