ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the key content for electronics, systems and control teaching to support design and technology activity in the secondary school at lower secondary and examination level. The chapter explores the technologies that enable us to build interaction, intelligence and autonomy into products and environments and the knowledge needed in order to prepare to teach this. The chapter covers the systems approach, considering the input, process and output components that allow the building of electronic circuits. Starting with systems thinking, how this is applied to electronics and then moving to the integration of electronic and mechanical systems, it also considers some issues encountered when interfacing between different systems and embedding them in products and environments including using microcontrollers and robotics.
