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Here is a list of excellent readings, videos, etc. that describe the idea behind making to learn and design thinking. Do add models of design thinking from the 250 class.
Vision
Vision
A visionary idea from John Seely Brown at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiGabUBQEnM&feature=youtu.be
- Created in 2012, does this vision still hold true in today's world almost a decade later?
- Can learners really take more responsibility for their own learning? What percentage? What kind of learner might be open to such an idea?
- What type of learner would find it difficult to take a larger role in their own learning?
- What about the idea that kids who are misbehaving under the current teaching practices might blossom under Brown's ideas?
Background
Background
This video explains the origin of Design Thinking as created by the IDEO corporation and could be used to introduce the whole concept. Perhaps a couple of viewings would be very appropriate for a group just being introduced to the concept.
Current Overview
Current Overview
Book: Invent to Learn, 2nd ed. by Sylvia Martinez, 2019. Probably the best known book about making and inventing in the classroom. Available from Amazon.com. Also, soon after the first edition came out, Sylvia did a talk on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDUHSPKvJRA
Topics to pursue in this book:
Interview: A second, longer interview with Sylvia Martinez can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0UlQgMBk8&t=1958s
Other Major Ideas
Other Major Ideas
What skills do children and teens really need to succeed? Dr Lara A. Jana tries to answer this question in a TED Talk, 2018 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_1Zv_ECy0g
She labels this set of skills as QI skills:
- Me skills
- We skills
- Why? skills
- Will skills
- Wiggle skills
- Wobble skills
- What If skills
Why should Kids and Teens learn problem solving through data analytics at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkF7sHjI7_A
- How early is too early to introduce problem solving to your young people?
- How can problem solving become interdisciplinary? Or should it?
- Is there a demand out there for problem solvers in your community?
- Are there already some measures of problem solving in the assessment strategies that are currently used in the school?
- If there are no measures, how can these be included when high stakes tests seem paramount?
- How could this video be used with a group of administrators, parents, or high schoolers?
Is flexibility in thinking determined by the environment we grow up in? See this article at: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53481/why-the-semi-nomadic-himba-are-so-good-at-thinking-outside-the-box?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20190421MindShiftNewsletterSubscribers&mc_key=00Qi000001WzPsREAV
- Interesting theories often appear and may or may not lead us in a useful direction. What do you think about this one?
- Among a teaching faculty, how does one work across the spectrum of flexibility to inflexibility?
- Is there any evidence that the students of risk takers vs. inflexible differ on various types of measures?
- What is the best advice to teacher librarians and technology specialists who want to introduce strategies such as design thinking into teaching practices?
Professional Development
Professional Development
Design thinking for Librarians series on a YouTube Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCHdmLnoeWZIg8DOzyGHeQ
- Take note of adults learning how to employ design thinking to improve their library services.
- How many of the adult groups involved children and young people in the design process?
- Can old dogs really learn new tricks?
- How would such a project be funded?
Vicky Davis has a great article that discusses nine ways to invent at: https://www.edutopia.org/article/9-ways-inspire-student-inventors-vicki-davis
- Ask a group of adults to read the article before a workshop or professional development session.
- At the workshop, create a list of the nine strategies in small groups.
- Ask each group to study one idea in depth giving suggestions from their own experience.
- Jigsaw the group to develop a sample learning experience that follows the David recommendations.
- Challenge teams of librarians and classroom teachers or other specialists to carry out the planned experiences and then gather the group back together for an analysis.
- Ask, "So what? What's next?"
- Check out other articles and books written by Vicky Davis.
Take a look at four year olds doing design thinking at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8spXa6GXM
- What are these children doing that exhibits the various stages of design thinking?
- Is it really possible for them to understand the process they are going through?
- Is there a vocabulary that works for younger learner as they think through the process of design thinking?
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