Design Studio

Design Studio: The Ultimate Goal

PLAN AND CREATE WITH A PARTNER

ONE Digital Inquiry Lesson/Project (with Anytime and Real Time Components)
TWO digital artifacts (one teaching artifact and one learning artifact)
FIVE short, but thoughtful video reflections

Design Studio Inquiry Process

DESIGN STUDIO provides the time and space for you to plan and create your inquiry project, working individually or collaboratively in the spirit of “Everyone learns from everyone.” Because we believe in the “Power of Two” to promote creativity, you’re teaming up with a Dyad Partner based on your interests and scheduling availability during the week.

HOMEROOM: On Sunday and Monday, you'll network with other participants in structured real-time conversations about your work context and inquiry interests. On Tuesday, you will be assigned to a Design Studio Homeroom Leader to guide and support your efforts. You'll also have access to 14 faculty members and more than 150 other participants with expertise in different disciplines and work contexts.

DAILY GOALS FOR DESIGN STUDIO: During the week, in Design Studio, you explore resources, practice your skills, develop plans, and create media that helps you develop an inquiry project relevant to your needs. Each day, scaffolded guidance is offered in relation to your goals and needs. At the end of the week, on Friday, you and your partner share what you have developed and created in the Virtual Gallery Walk. Download your own copy of the Daily Design Studio Goals (see also below) and check in daily with your homeroom leader and dyad partner to share your progress and/or questions.

INQUIRY TEMPLATES: You might consider using the Design Studio a Template to design a lesson or project that integrates anytime and real-time elements of teaching and learning. Over the course of the week, the template will grow to incorporate the concepts of digital and media literacy that you wish to bring into your lesson or project. Your Dyad Page will include a version of the inquiry plan template that you can customize to document your work in Design Studio.

Design Studio Frameworks

During the Institute you will be using the Anytime/Realtime Learning Model as the primary pedagogical approach for the plan you will develop. You will use the Personal Digital Inquiry Framework to help you consider how you might design learning opportunities linked to four sets of essential inquiry elements. You will also use the Digital and Media Literacy Framework to identify specific digital literacy competencies your project might best address. Finally, we will encourage you to consider how an expanded conceptualization of literacy -- with its focus on reflection and action-- helps learners develop intellectual curiosity that connects the classroom to the culture.

Learn more about the core elements of the three frameworks that will guide your work this week.

Design Studio Goals for Each Day

Check in daily with your homeroom leader and dyad partner to share your progress and/or questions about these daily goals:

Sunday and Monday

Meet people and discover how their interests align with yours.
Find a thought partner for Design Studio and put your name on the Dyad Partner list.
Review the Design Studio Process to consider the possibilities.
Reflect on your learning with Flipgrid.

Tuesday

Get to know your partner and discover some common interests as you complete the Context and Learner sections of your Dyad’s project page (names, who we are, and context).
Keep talking with your partner to identify an inquiry question.
Take time to explore some of the digital tools, resources and platforms you learned about in the Workshops and Conversations you attended.
Reflect on your learning with Flipgrid.

Wednesday

Plan. You may find the Design Studio Planning Document helpful as you consider all the elements and stages of your work.
Create. Use what you’re learning to create some digital media for your Design Studio Project.
Collaborate. Apply what you learned about Compass Points to give and receive feedback on your work.
Reflect on your learning with Flipgrid.

Thursday

Plan and Collaborate with your Dyad partner, giving and receiving feedback on your work.
Create. Use what you’re learning to create some digital media for your Design Studio Project.
Assemble. Develop a page on the Google Site to showcase your completed work.
Reflect on your identity in Design Studio and reflect on your learning with Flipgrid.

Friday

Collaborate with your partner to create a 3-minute Screencast Video Overview that describes what you created together.
Share your project and learn from other people's creations in Virtual Design Studio Showcase.

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