Design Thinking

Design Thinking for 21st Century Learning

Design thinking was applied to the design and development of this course. The principles of Design thinking were adapted from work by Hartson and Pyla (2002) The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Designing a Quality User Experience and Wiggins and Mctighe (2005).

Phase (1) Gather Inspiration:

For gathering inspiration I watched several videos about backwards design. I found this series of videos, by Grant Wiggins, to be especially helpful. He demonstrates Understanding By Design here for a small audience of teachers.

Phase (2) : Generate Ideas

For generating ideas I referred back to the process for user experience design presented by Hartson and Pyla (2012) in their book “The UX Book: Process and guidelines for ensuring a quality user experience.” The iterative process that they propose for designing new things is: analyze, design, prototype, evaluate. This design process can be combined with the steps of backwards design by Wiggins and Mctighe (2005):

Identify desired results
Determine acceptable evidence
Plan the learning experience

While the Wiggins and McTighe (2005) process provide a goal focused framework, the Hartson and Pyla (2012) design process helps to keep the framework user centered and iterative.

Phase (3) : Make Ideas Tangible

To make these ideas Tangible, I created an outline/mockup of the classroom. I will also create some storyboards/scenarios of how the technology (Slack) will help to increase the likelihood of a community of practice which they may also facilitate a community of inquiry.

Phase (4) : Share the Story

For this phase I shared my storyboards, mockups and ideas with colleagues and potential students to receive feedback.

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