Design and technology: primary pupils to be taught to plan, design and build a product and evaluate its final result.
With the advancement of the technology, school pupils can simply search for information regarding heart attacks and CPR [15, 19].
With the huge steps in facial capture technology – characters' pupils dilate in COD – games can rival most big budget movies for emotional impact as well as action.
In an interview, Dr. Brennan said class-size issues were not the main motivation for the project, which he hopes will expand student opportunity and increase technology literacy among pupils and staff alike.
It will be the first in the country to offer specialisms in marine engineering and environmental technology to its pupils, aged 14 to 18.
A reform this term, which offers 15- to 16-year-olds new options in such subjects as art and technology, gives all pupils time with a personal tutor to help with learning difficulties.
But according to the NUT survey, teachers say the push towards the suite of more traditional, academic subjects has led to fewer schools offering subjects such as music, drama or design and technology, and giving pupils fewer options.
Chemistry is taught in a store-room, drama in the foyer of the technology department; 563 pupils are being educated in space designed for 380, yet their performance is well above average for an all-ability school.In many ways, this could be any state school that is succeeding against the odds in a rough urban area.
Simon Elliot, the school's director of digital technology, said: "With pupils who might be reluctant readers, or who might not pick up a book... the iPad is now giving them something that they're forced to read... therefore they are reading a higher volume of work".
This eye tracker uses bright pupil technology and tracked saccades at 120 Hz.
