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Designing for CAD/CAM [electronic resource].

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[England] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2006.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (31 min.).
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Evans Woolfe (Firm)
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This edition in English.
Summary
For D & T trouble-shooter Steve Stott the CAD/CAM revolution is fraught with dangers. Though it has revolutionised classroom teaching, traditional designing often takes a back seat. Steve is a full-time advisor for Barking and Dagenham LEA. Along with the University of Cambridge he has pioneered a new work scheme which takes students back to the first principles of designing. Using simple pencil drawing, he asks students to break down familiar images, such as animals, plants and people into familiar geometric shapes, which become the basis of designs for functional objects such as CD and toothbrush holders. This happens via a refinement of drawings, crude cardboard prototyping, CAD work using PROdesktop software and eventually CAM.In this programme Stott works with teachers from Barking and Dagenham, showing them how to apply his methods in their classrooms.
D & T trouble-shooter Steve Stott has devised some innovative ideas to help students design for CAD/CAM. He wants to get back to pencil and paper, and move away from reliance other people's creative ideas.He's trying out a new scheme of work at John Kelly Technology College in Brent, where over a third of students speak English as a second language. Students here can be challenging, and as a result, the school has adopted quite a formulaic curriculum, with classes working to the same designs.The programme follows a group of year 9 students who after some initial uncertainty swiftly warm to Steve's ideas. The school's head of department, Alan Patterson, is greatly impressed by the experience, and staff at the school agree that it's vital that D&T classrooms must always find space for traditional and original designing techniques.
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Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).
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Previously released as DVD.
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Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Education in video). Available via World Wide Web.
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