School Uniforms of the Future – Part 2 March 7, 2007
Posted by Joseph Papaleo in General, Mobile Phones, classroom.trackback
I’ve been thinking about school uniforms of the future recently – whacky ideas really (see School Uniforms of the Future), where I wrote about Dick Tracy, Maxwell Smart and some current Nike shoes, Levi jeans and a jacket that have been adapted to incorporate an iPod.
So it got me thinking that this would be a great research and design project for students (both Primary and Secondary). After researching, present the open-ended question With technology converging and getting smaller, what will your school uniform look like in 2017? I could see the boys would get right in to the technology side of the project while the girls could get in to the fashion side of things. Perhaps a group project with a boy and girl matched together for the project – if numbers allowed and boy germs didn’t contaminate the girls and vice versa (how silly are they???).
The project would have students investigate
- Dick Tracy’s wristwatch radio
- Maxwell Smart’s shoephone.
Research could include interviewing Mum or Dad or some other older person. The research would not have to be written evidence, but could be recorded on their mobile phone or the Sound Recorder in Windows or other recording device if they have one (eg video interview). Discussion in class could revolve around these interviews being Primary sources of information (as opposed to Secondary sources of information which would include the Internet).Students would then be required to do some research on
- Nike+ runners and Sport Kit
- RedWire DLX Jeans
- Kenpo jacket
and find a common link between them.
Once the research is completed, a report (can be any format) is to be presented on each item. Then the open ended question – With technology converging and getting smaller, what will your school uniform look like in 2017? Students would be free to be serious, silly, creative, etc.
I think I’ll use it soon with one of my IT classes. I’ll write it up and post a reference here in the next few days.
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