Please join us for a weekly conversation about design thinking in K12 education. We will have a variety of moderators with a wide range and depth of design thinking experiences. Each week, we will connect the dots to the design thinking methodology and how it can and will play a bigger role in today’s K12 educational arena.
Hey there #dtk12chat friends. It looks like we are free-form tonight. Anyone have any burning questions or brilliant advice? I'm currently struggling with scaling DT (at least the mindset) where I am.
We got a request through https://t.co/N4IgwfNT5u for the topic "design thinking for innovation in secondary schools," in case anyone has something to say about that. Working on a fully-formed chat for it. #dtk12chat
The @4pt0schools grant system seems a great application for innovation in school structure and education in general! Long-form DT from small pilots to larger-scale implementation. Have any #dtk12chat family done a 4.0 grant? I applied this round.
im knee deep in potty training research and its a rabbit hole mecca… I totally forgot to circle back to #dtk12chat and Love seeing you two take the lead
A1 I guess I do intentional review on active reading techniques, but if a recent student review ("like most things in this class, the 'design sprint' on To Kill a Mockingbird was new") is true, I don't review much. #dtk12chat
Totally teachable. Not only do I want to believe that, but I know it's true b/c I've seen Ss learn to look at things with an analytical eye, which I think is the first step to asking better critical Qs. #dtk12chat
A2 Definitely teachable. If it weren't, I'd have wasted 27 years as a debate judge, assistant, and coach. Of course, that's just one type, but I always "engender" it by offering the question: "Why are things the way they are?" #dtk12chat
A2b David Perkins' work on close viewing as well as mindfulness curricula that ask students to pay careful attention to the stimuli they often ignore in order to make it through the day are both evidence that this is teachable. #dtk12chat
A3: Cheat answer: all of them. Start at the beginning and teach each mindset shift as we go. I use a lot of improv-based games and tools a la @bigideasfest and @WickedDecent#dtk12chat
Yup...it all is. But 1 of my best learning experiences was Ting a college class and encountering a whip-smart Swarthmore (Quaker school) grad who wouldn't engage in debate methods. #dtk12chat
A3b: I love getting Ss to just sit and observe, anthropologist style. Often they are surprised by something the had missed about their own environment. #dtk12chat
A4 Funny, #bcedchat just posted this article: https://t.co/pGe0Yij4nF
Truth be told, I'm awfully taken by the heutagogy movement and the push for more learner-centered learning...though I hear the above-linked articles call for equity. #dtk12chat
I used to do this all the time with my students. As writers, we had to be keen observers of the everyday to find the extraordinary in the din of the day.#dtk12chat
Haha! 4th/5ths observing in our makerspace to help id & solve probs, while 1st graders were doing a project.
Their main obsvn: “it’s like you had a trail of ducklings following you around constantly asking you questions...”
Told them: YEP! Same when it’s y’all! 🤣
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A7 #dtk12chat From the article: https://t.co/pGe0Yij4nF
Provide direct instruction to build knowledge content that informs the heart and the head. Allow exploratory work that builds out of the DI
A7 Acknowledging the issue(s) sis important so that people (designers and designees/users) know they are heard and understood, but the designers need to be able to support their users in not falling in love with the problem. #dtk12chat
A7b My fave example of this is the bold model I think I read in School 2.0: voice the challenges, write them down and post them around the room, acknowledge their power, then don't mention them again. Work as they are the constructs of your reality, not limits of it #dtk12chat
#dtk12chat A5: Research is key. You can't apply understanding to solve problems if you don't have deep understanding of concepts AND ability to identify authentic needs.
#dtk12chat A6: Ss need heaps of practice w/connection making to identify schemas and patterns across content and experiences. Observation/noticing w/Thinking Routines is critical (emphasis on routine).
Well thanks for stopping by our impromptu -but secretly prepared #dtk12chat. May you seek and find beauty in the simple and wild things! Until next time!!
