Week 5: Readings

This week's readings contained information about the future thinking. Through out history many people have made predictions and theories about what technology will look and function in the future, for example, someone from the sixties predicted that people in 2015 will be traveling from a Hoover car.

Future Thinking provides information for students and teachers, to help them inticipate the future. According to Future Thinking (2015) "Thinking about future can be considered in both spatial and temporal dimensions, both of which can be developmentally nurtured in students as they process through studies in the Technology learning area."

It's important for students to enjoy future learning because they will be living in that environment. For future study, students are able to extend their thinking and eyed their thought process to a larger audience. "It is as vital for children to understand the temporal interrelationships between past, present and future as the spatial interrelationships between local, national and global. Yet, if all education is a preparation for the future when and where are pupils given the opportunity to explore the futures that they would like to see come about?" (Hicks, 2006-2012). 

Abling students to understand the future of technology and the importance their design can make for their economy and environment for the future is important. This reflects on the Technology Design cycle in Evaluation. The students are constantly examining and analysing their product to understand the sustainability of their created product. They can also use the step of the design cycle, of Evaluation to make sure they are comparing and reflecting the sustainability of their product, and testing to see if it fits the criteria of a mainstream society. Students will understand and reflect on their products Content, Appropriateness and Management, so that it benefical for future reproduction and usage.  




Referencing:
FutureThinking. (2015). Teaching for a better world: leading for sustainability. Retrieved from http://www.teaching4abetterworld.co.uk/futures.html

Hicks, D. (2006) Lessons for the Future: The missing dimension in education. Victoria BC: Trafford Publishing. 

Hicks, D. (2012) Developing a futures perspective in the classroom in: S. Ward (ed) A Student’s Guide to Education Studies. 3rd edition. Routledge