Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to what is our 10th lesson in the design and technology textiles unit of work.

My name is Mr. Wicken, and it's fantastic to see you here today in our lesson.

In today's lesson, we're going to understand why it's so important to evaluate our final design and what we can take from evaluating our finished product, and also what we've learned to help us move forward with our learning for any future work we do within design technology.

So, let's go and have a look at today's learning objectives.

As always, if you haven't yet got the intro quiz done before we go into the learning objectives, if you could pause the video here now, go and get that done for me and they we'll carry on with the learning objectives.

Okay.

Now that's done, let's have a look at what we're going to learn about in today's lesson.

So the first area of learning that we're going to look into in our lesson today is actually how we evaluate against our original design brief.

So we originally wrote a design brief in a previous lesson and actually today we're going to take that document and we're going to evaluate against it to ensure that what we've created in our final product actually meets that original brief.

We're also going to look into the sustainability issues that we discussed in the previous lesson and actually how that fits together nicely with the overall fit and finish of what we have completed.

Then the next area of learning in today's lesson is actually evaluated your learning, your performance, how you feel you've done in our lessons over this unit of work and what you've taken from it and where you think you could improve going forward.

And as always, we're going to finish off with the exit quiz just to conclude all the learning that you've done in our lesson today.

Now, as always, before we go into anything else, we need to make sure we've got our equipment ready.

So we need to have the following to hand.

First, our exercise book or piece of paper so that we can do the writing for our evaluation in our lesson today, you also need a pen.

Doesn't matter what colour, just as long as it's comfortable and working, I'm happy with that.

And also you might want a computer or tablet or some sort of internet enabled device, just to help you with maybe some of the areas of the evaluation work that we're going to look into so that you can be really truly successful in our learning in today's lesson.

So if you haven't got these bits of equipment, pause the video here now, go and get them for me, and then we'll carry on.

Okay.

Right.

Now we've got our equipment, let's have a look at today's key words.

And we've got two key words in today's lesson.

The first one is evaluate.

So as always, I'll say it, and then you'll repeat it.

So let's say it, evaluate.

Evaluate.

Evaluate.

Excellent.

Well done.

Now I'm absolutely certain you've used this word before in different areas of learning, in different actual subjects, not just design technology, but let's just make sure that we're clear on the understanding.

So evaluate use to judge or to sort of conclude actually how well the actual product that you've designed meets its significance, its reason for being, the quality, the fit and finish, the overall look and appearance of it.

You would judge whether you think that what you've created is suitable for that end user of your product.

So we are evaluating the overall effectiveness of that product to finish with.

Our second key word in today's lesson is suitability.

So again, let's say it together, suitability.

Suitability.

Suitability.

Excellent.

Very well done.

Now suitability actually is how well actually the design of the product that we've created meets that intended user.

So we've spoken about we're evaluating against actually how well this is going to be as a product.

We need to make sure that it's suitable for that end client.

Because if it's not, actually the person who we are designing it for isn't necessarily going to go and buy the product because it hasn't met their suitable sort of needs and requirements.

So we need to make sure that the suitability of our end product when we're evaluating it is actually in line with what our intended user is wanting from that product.

So let's go and have a look into our first learning objective for today's lesson.

So our first learning objective for today's lesson is actually how we evaluate against your design brief that we've written in a previous lesson.

So throughout this whole project, we have made sure that at every point in the process we are referring back to that original design brief because we need to consider what we had originally intended to design and manufacture.

If we didn't keep referring back to that design brief, what we end up manufacturing might not be suitable for our intended usability, that suitability that we've just spoken about as a key word.

So what we're going to do now is we're going to take that document.

We're actually going to evaluate against it.

So you wrote a nice paragraph that was broken down into those four key areas and you are going to evaluate against the design brief as to how well you feel you've met that original statement.

It was a very broad, very open statement that you were just going to make a mobile phone protector.

And you had an idea of clients and where it was going to be used but there was no specifics on design or features or the look of it.

So actually hopefully by evaluating against this with your final product to hand, you're going to be able to now see just how well you've met that original design brief.

Don't worry if you think that there are parts of your final design that don't necessarily fully meet that design brief.

That's the whole point of evaluating.

Actually by going through, looking at the product that you've created and evaluating against that original document, you can see where you may need to do further improvements if this product was ever to go to market.

And that's what we've always got to be thinking about actually, is this a real life product? Wwll yes, we need to treat it as though it's a real life product that's going to go to market to be sold.

So we need to always consider that is this going to be the best product for that intended end user? And if there are areas of improvement, that's perfectly fine.

That's the whole point of evaluating.

I look at my stuff that I do on a constant basis and always think I could do better here.

Actually, I haven't done as well as I should do here and I need to improve it.

That's the whole point of learning and that's the whole point of the design process is to just keep going around, evaluating and changing the design, evaluating and changing those designs until you just keep going around with another idea and then you take that forward and eventually you keep evaluating that on, and on, and on, and on, and on.

Look at the car.

The car started off hundreds of years ago as what it is and now look where it is today.

And it's still evolving as we go forward over the next however many years using that type of transportation.

It keeps evaluating and getting better.

Now, the other thing that I want you to consider as well further to the actual design brief is actually the sustainability of our final design.

So we looked into sustainability within textile based products in a previous lesson and that's something else I want you to consider.

When you're writing this evaluation against your design brief, I also want you to look at the end product and think, is this a sustainable design? Actually, there's a couple of questions here that I want you to consider when you're doing this.

So how does the design meet any of the three Rs? So reduce, reuse and recycle.

It might meet one, it might meet two, it might meet all three, which is great.

Or you might find that it's not really meeting any of those three.

So that's something that you need to discuss that if it is meeting it, great, how and why? But if it's not, what can you do with that product if it was to be taken further forward, actually to make it so it does meet one of those three Rs or all three of those key three R things, reduce, reuse, and recycle.

The other thing is, even whether you've taken those things into consideration, which is great, actually we can always make it more sustainable.

So how could the design be kinder to the environment? What could we do to even further the sustainability of that final product? Because actually by making it even more sustainable, we're going to reduce the impact on the world around us even further, which is exactly what we need to be doing.

As designers as we are, we need to constantly be thinking, what can we do to reduce that impact on the world around us? So make sure you're considering those two questions as well when you're going through your evaluation against the design brief.

So, you're going to pause the video here now, and you're going to go and evaluate against your design.

You can do it in your exercise book or on a piece of paper, or you could write it on the computer.

I don't mind that either of those things.

Entirely up to you.

Make sure that you're thinking about that intended final user and actually wherever it's suitable for who we've originally designed it for.

And you also need to think about the sustainability of that final product.

How well have you actually made that product to be sustainable, sorry.

Sustainable.

Put my teeth in.

And then also, how could you further improve that sustainability of the product? What could you do to even better its environmental credentials to sell it to the general public so that you can be confident that that product is good and pretty much harm-free to the world around us? So, pause the video here, go and evaluate it.

Good luck, I'm going to see you in a little while.

Welcome back.

And I hope you got on really well with evaluating your final product against your design brief and you've got a much clearer idea now as to the final product and how well it's met that original design brief that we wrote in our previous lessons.

You've also hopefully now got a clear idea as to how environmentally friendly, how sustainable your final design is as a product and where possibly you could make further improvements to make it even greener as a product.

Now we're going to move on to our second and final learning objective in today's lesson, which is evaluating your learning.

So we've evaluated the product and actually how well it's met those original documents and ideas but now we need to do something that's really important to any design process with any project we do which is evaluating our own personal performance.

This is so crucial to us and to improve our learning moving forward because if there's things that we've done well, we need to actually discuss them and celebrate them.

But also if there's areas that we can improve on, then that's something that we need to be honest to ourselves about so that we can better our design work, our practical work, our all sorts of different areas to do the design process so that in future projects that we do, we can be better in those areas of work.

So it's really key that what you do now is actually evaluate your own performance across this whole unit of work where we've done a huge amount of learning.

Let's just think about actually some of the things that we've learned in this unit of work.

We've understood what different fibres are, we've looked into sustainability within the textiles industry, we've looked into making our design ideas and developing our design ideas, we've understood different stitching techniques, we've then gone and actually made the product with the different parts of it, the pattern, the stitching together, the adding the finishing detail to it, a huge amount of learning that hopefully you can now look back at from these 10 lessons and go, "Wow! "I've learned a huge amount "and actually I've been really successful here "but actually these areas, I could be improving my skills "and understanding for future learning." And that's exactly what we need to be doing.

We need to be thinking about how we can progress moving forward from these lessons today.

So, you're going to pause the video here and again with your exercise book or piece of paper or on the computer, I want you to answer these three questions as to your personal performance across this project.

So what have you learned in completing this unit of work? Well, I've just gone through some of the stuff that we've done over these lessons so hopefully a lot of that learning that we've done was new to you and you've actually expanded on that learning further to better understand those different areas.

The second question is what was successful when completing this unit work? So what successes did you have? Is it to do with your design ideas? Is it to do with the actual practical work where you've made the mobile phone protector? Or maybe it's understanding what sustainability is and how you and your family, and your carers, and your friends could be better to the world around us, or it might be as simple as do you know what? I've really enjoyed writing and understanding how to do a design brief.

Great, brilliant.

If that's something that you've been successful at, write about it, celebrate your successes, really, really, really well done because that's what I want you to do.

Celebrate your successes.

And the last one, and for me I know this is my personal sort of really sort of focus is actually what areas could you improve for future learning? It's all great celebrating our successes and I love doing that and I'm always proud of what I do or what my students do at my school, but actually the thing that really does help us learn and progress is understanding and identifying areas that we could improve in.

And that's what I want you to do.

There's loads of things I could improve on, and I think about those on a daily basis and try to better myself.

And I want you to do the same.

Actually where could you improve your skills from this unit work? It might through stitching techniques, it might be through your design ideas, it could be to do with better understanding the environment and the world around us and how you can reduce your impact.

But write about them.

And make sure for each one of these three things, don't just say, this is something that I've done.

You need to explain it.

You need to put the why behind it.

Why is that something that you're saying? Why have you written that down? And what can you take from those points? So pause the video here now, go and get answering those three questions and make sure you've got a good amount of detail.

Be honest to yourself.

Maybe have a chat with somebody in your house to see what they think to help you with your answers.

Good luck, and I'll see you in a while.

Welcome back.

And I hope you got on really well with evaluating your own performance and that you have identified where you've had successes in this project and you've celebrate them, but also areas that you could further improve on as we move forward with the learning a different unit of work.

Really well done on that and I hope that it's helped you just to conclude everything we've done over these 10 lessons.

And that's it for our lessons today and indeed this unit of work.

Can I thank you so much for being here and doing everything with us as a group? I am so proud of the work that you've produced and I hope you are just as proud of what you've been able to achieve in these lessons.

We have learned a huge amount over these 10 lessons from sustainability, to design ideas, to stitching techniques, to actually manufacturing and evaluating our final product.

I really, really hope that you can be successful going forward with any future learning you do in designing technology.

As always, I would love to see the work that you've produced and if your parent or carer could take some photos and then share them online, that will be great.

Remember, make sure that they are using the #LearnwithOak.

Thank you as always for being here.

Take care.

I will see you hopefully in the future.

Bye bye.