Future+Design+Ideas

toc Massey University's School of Design generates lots of innovative ideas. **These ideas will be particularly useful for teachers who want to introduce the Knowledge and Nature strands** **using** **interesting** **future focussed themes.**  This page will keep you up to date with these as they come through. =Newsletter= People at Massey Newsletter

=Slick, slim rail design to unclog city routes= //"A driverless, electric-powered light rail system designed to whisk commuters more efficiently around central Auckland and across the harbour bridge could appeal to people who snub existing public transport, says its creator."// TV3 Video clip of John Campbell interviewing Oliver Neuland, the designer from Auckland's School of Design at the Albany Campus. In terms of the ** Nature of Technology, ** what social implications could be discussed with this short clip to start students' thinking? Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and the environment and increases people’s capability. || provide students with examples of technological outcomes and guide them to understand how they can increase people’s capability to do things. Examples should allow students to recognize that increasing capability may result in both positive and negative impacts on society and/or the environment || Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines. || support students to understand that expanding human possibilities can result in positive and negative impacts for particular groups of people, and the wider social and natural environment || Understand how people’s perceptions and acceptance of technology impact on technological developments and how and why technological knowledge becomes codified. || support students to analyse a range of examples of technological developments to examine people’s perceptions and/or level of acceptance has influenced the developments. Examples should be drawn from past, present and possible future technological developments to allow students to gain insight into the influence that perceptions and past experiences have on the acceptance of existing and future technological practice and outcomes || Understand the implications of technology as intervention by design and how interventions have consequences, known and unknown, intended and unintended. || support students to critically analyse examples of technological developments and their consequences (known and unknown, intended and unintended), to gain insight into the social responsibility technologists have due to the interventionist nature of technology. Examples should allow students to gain insight into how technology has real and long term impacts for the made, natural and social world. Students should be supported to discuss the implications this has for technologists’ collective responsibility ||
 * For example, the technology "Indicators of Progression" identify the following opportunities to expand these NoT objectives:**
 * **Characteristics of Technology Objective** || **Teacher guidance** ||
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 * L8