What is Technology?

Item Posted By: John Bilton

You make mention of the APU model of design as an argument against defining design as a sequential process. In actual fact, the APU model supports this sequential notion whilst, as you point out, attempting to define how modelling in the mind and modelling in reality work in tandem. The disadvantage of models such as the APU model is that they attempt to capture the nature of design and technology within the educational world and are therefore based upon the design/technological process being the sort of individual process which is seldom encountered in "real world" technology where teamwork and collaboration are the norm. Also, such models were devised to provide a structure for the teaching of D+T and to aid the process of student assessment within schools, and were thereby devised to impose a structure upon what is an essentially confused and interactive process.

• 1. Bob Welch
  
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