Design and Technology

The digital erosion of childhood

• Sandra Leaton Gray
• Andy Phippen

This book is a manifesto for a different digital future for children, in which their rights are respected and their identities are free. Aimed at anyone who has sensed the cultural shift in childhood currently taking place, this book helps readers think more deeply about what it means to be a child in the digital world today.

• Carey Jewitt

In this lecture Carey Jewitt shows how design and use of technologies has a key role in communication and learning, and how their use can shape practices and potentials and change resources.

• John Siraj-Blatchford

A description of work on developing new educational tools for four to eight year olds, funded by the European Commission. It should be of interest to specialists and more general readers concerned with young children and technology.

Structures

• Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
• John Myerson

This title covers aspects of subject knowledge relating to: structures and materials, shell and frame structures, forces and moments, the effects of loads and stress analysis.

Developing Planning and Communicating Ideas

• Gwyneth Owen-Jackson

Divided into four sections – starting to design, designing, design for manufacture, and evaluating designs – this text covers design briefs, consumer research, product specification and design, product development, and manufacture and issues to do with “green” design.

Systems and Control

• Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
• John Myerson

This book covers aspects of subject knowledge relating to: inputs and outputs in systems; feedback; introduction to circuits; transistors, resistors and capacitors. The main focus is on digital systems, but reference is also made to analogue systems.