Fashioning Technology: Integrating Wearable Electronics into Your Textiles CurriculumSarah Davies Nottingham Trent UniversityDesign and Technology Education

Friday 18 November 201115:00, Room 2 SECONDARY Seminar 11

Fashioning Technology

Wearable technology (Seymour 2008)

Are you interested in technical textiles?

Have you heard of Hussein Chalayan ?

Do you know what an L.E.D is?

Can you create a parallel circuit?

Can you read the tolerance level on a resistor?

Seminar aims:Looking at integrated electron/textiles – called wearable technology : (subject Knowledge)

Discussing the potential for use in schools: (curriculum knowledge)

Considering how the topic can be included in the curriculum: (pedagogic knowledge)

Next steps..

What do we mean by wearable technology?

Colcherster (2007) discusses the future of “materials and prototypes that are so new that we can hardly foresee how the familiar functions of textiles will be transformed in the future”

Wearable technology• Fibre• Fabric• Construction

How will this benefit our curriculum?

Modern textiles

“narrowing the gap between the world of art, design, engineering and science”

Braddock and O’Mahay (1998)

D&T in the National Curriculum Review“The challenge for the D&T curriculum in England is to not be left behind [technology-focused countries such as China and France] and to contribute to preparing young people for future roles in the design, technological, engineering and scientific industries.”

• Ofsted report on success of primary and secondary design and technology education - 25 March 2011

ConstructionalHow it fits together

MarketingWho it’s for

ConceptualWhat it does

TechnicalHow it works

AestheticWhat it looks like

A&DSTEM

…?

D Barlex Nov09

How can we develop this into the curriculum?

Outputs – mechanical or electronic

Lights/visual

Release of sound/music

movement creating texture/change

release of smell/scent

Greta Clement: Ellis Guilford School, Nottingham City

This shows the use of electro luminescent wire used as a decorative feature.

Greta Clement: Ellis Guilford School, Nottingham City

Lance Bolton: NTU 2011

Laura Morell: NTU 2011

Getting started with integrated fashion and technology

Creating a soft circuit

Interface/path Conductive thread

Inputs switches - (conductive fabric)

Outputs LED flashing lights

Energy coin cell battery

material Polyester Fleece fabric

LED circuits: parallel

LED circuits

Kitronic 2011

Digital craft• http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/ • http://hlt.media.mit.edu/ • http://lilypond.media.mit.edu/

http://www.aniomagic.com/?hl=en

The Digital Design and technology Programme, which is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) grows out of and builds on the two major curriculum development projects, CAD/CAM in Schools and the Electronics in Schools Strategy.

Thank you

Sarah Davies Nottingham Trent UniversityDesign and Technology Education

Sarah.davies@ntu.ac.uk

Fashioning Technology Course 15th February 2012.

Colour 1st digit 2nd digit 3rd digit* Multiplier Tolerance Temp. Coef. Fail Rate

Black 0 0 0 ×100      

Brown 1 1 1 ×101 ±1% (F) 100 ppm/K 1%

Red 2 2 2 ×102 ±2% (G) 50 ppm/K 0.1%

Orange 3 3 3 ×103   15 ppm/K 0.01%

Yellow 4 4 4 ×104   25 ppm/K 0.001%

Green 5 5 5 ×105 ±0.5% (D)    

Blue 6 6 6 ×106 ±0.25%(C)    

Violet 7 7 7 ×107 ±0.1% (B)    

Gray 8 8 8 ×108 ±0.05% (A)    

White 9 9 9 ×109      

Gold       ×0.1 ±5% (J)    

Silver       ×0.01 ±10% (K)    

None         ±20% (M)    

The standard resistor color code table: * 3rd digit - only for 5-band resistors