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Mapping Design Thinking against the General Capabilities
Mapping Design Thinking against the General Capabilities
It can sometimes be challenging to assess the general capabilities. The design thinking process offers one way to make the general capabilities assessable.
The stages of empathy and define align well with:
Critical and creative thinking - Questions and possibilities
Critical and creative thinking - Reasoning
Intercultural capability - Cultural practices
Intercultural capability - Cultural diversity
The stages of ideate, prototype, and test align well with:
Critical and creative thinking - metacognition
Personal and social capability - Self-awareness and management
Personal and social capability - Social awareness and management
Notice that Ethical Capability has not been included and you may wish to add an additional stage to the design thinking process that questions should we be designing the proposed solution.
Curriculum mapping.pdfProvided is a draft document that maps Critical and Creative Thinking, the Intercultural Capability, and the Personal and Social Capability against the design thinking stages for F - 10.
Assessing Design Thinking
Assessing Design Thinking
growth ladder - Three little pigs.pdfConsider the design thinking problem from the Three Little Pigs. In this module, students use character interviews and stakeholder mapping to empathise with the various characters from the story, and define a problem from multiple perspectives. A problem might be from the perspective of the pigs, the wolf, or additional stakeholders such as building contractors, law enforcement, or environmentalists. The module could be followed with the task of designing a house that addresses the needs raised by one of the defined problems.
The Move-me-on map provides an example of how this activity might be assessed, with an example for each of the five design thinking stages. It assesses each of the design thinking stages against the SOLO levels. Each SOLO level includes an achievement description and a move-me-on suggestion for how the student might move onto the next level.
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