Technology:Analysing existing outcomes

This week we have been analysing existing outcomes to help us become better designers...

We have our first live project.... to design outcomes to help all our students to learn and reinforce our Te Reo Māori.

Each Technology class is linked to another class in the school- we have to design for our stakeholders. Some classes have to design for Year 5/6's and some have to design for our Juniors Year 0/1's and we have all year groups in between- thank you to the classes that have signed up for this!

In order to design quality outcomes that meet the need of our students we have been playing games and looking at existing vocabulary outcomes....like pop up books, interactive posters and interactive power point presentations.

Mobile wall hanging

Interactive poster

Snap-body parts

Yes/No Game

Dominoes- Colours in French- we had to learn some French to play this game 
It helped to make us feel like Year 0/1's so we could understand their needs. We also understood how important 
prior knowledge or a way of checking our answers was for our stakeholders

Double sided maths dominoes

To design great outcomes we need to understand how existing outcomes help us to learn too....

Pop up page-box fold-good layout-clear information

or maybe not....

Pop up page-box fold-bad layout-picture covers the information-split words-
information sticking out which will get damaged easily

We used thinking hats and prompts to analyse our outcomes and wrote key attributes for our new outcome

Some of our key attributes were...

It must have clear/printed writing
It must be easy to read
It must use clear pictures/images
It must have no sharp edges- for safety
It must be laminated- for durability
It must be fun
It should be in colour

Next week we will be designing and making prototypes- using key attributes as our focus