Innovative Designer
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Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
Design Process
Design Constraints
Prototypes
Open-Ended Problems
Resource Spotlight
Resource Spotlight
Ed Tech Connect NC was designed by the students and faculty at the University of North Carolina as a way to provide educators with lessons and resources to implement the ISTE Student Standards.
1.4a Design Process
1.4a Design Process
Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
Strategies to Facilitate a Design Process
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Design Thinking involves understanding people's needs, brainstorming ideas, creating solutions, testing them, and improving based on feedback. This approach helps develop innovative and practical solutions to real-world challenges.
PBS Learning Media has lessons and videos to support Engineering Design and Practices
Engineering Process
Engineering Process
1.4b Design Constraints
1.4b Design Constraints
Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks
Kanban
Kanban
Event Planner
Event Planner
Project Planner
Project Planner
Check out this fabulous idea from Teachers are Terrific that challenges students to budget as part of their design process.
1.4c Prototypes
1.4c Prototypes
Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
Design Inspiration
Design Inspiration
MakerEd created an online video series of hands-on learning activities called Learning in Making.
Create a free account with Code.org and facilitate lessons or activities that empower students to develop their own app or create a digital invention.
1.4d Open-Ended Problems
1.4d Open-Ended Problems
Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.
PBLWorks offers an expanding library of project ideas that are standards-aligned, and cover a range of grade levels and subject areas.
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