shopping centre

Your own business

What do you sell?(e.g. mobile phones, music CD’s, clothes)

Which unit will you choose? Give reasons

Setting up a Business in a

Shopping Centre(or… how we ditched Flowol, fooled our students into

enjoying spreadsheets, made them think more and ticked the Enterprise box while we were at it)

Chris WestFaculty Leader ICTRedhill School

problem

Options

“Will we do Flowol?”

Flōw’ŏln.control software disliked by many students; terrible user interface; stupid name; often completely capitalised (FLOWOL) by those who still think it’s 1994

Technology?

solution

Shopping Centre

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business plan

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emailpresentation

emailpresentation

delivery

Real(ish)

www.bcshoppingcentre.co.uk

www.btws.co.uk

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reasons

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reasons

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skills

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focused on solutionnot spreadsheet

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application

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benefits

= spreadsheet skills * A1

thinking

problem solving

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justification

Enterprise

Options

ICT

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Next?Who benefits from a unit like this?

What else can be incorporated into this Unit?

Why is this unit more successful than others?

Where else can this approach be used?When should a unit like this be

tackled?