DESIGN
Essential Questions:
Can the design process be used in all disciplines to enhance the learning process?
Can thinking skills be made visible in doing a design process?
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Design and Tinkering:
Tinkering is a playful style of design by making constant experiments and exploring new ideas in the design process.
It is celebrating the iterative and divergent/ convergent process that is part of the design process. |
Discussion of Design thinking and other disciplines
| Marshmallow Challenge |
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What is Design Thinking? The principles of Design Thinking include several essential elements that integrate project-based, experiential learning into any existing curriculum.
Adapted from Cooper-Hewitt
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But what’s missing from the Massachusetts framework? Cyclical nature of the process. Fundamentally a learning process that uses thinking skills. In fact, it is a higher order thinking skill. The Engineering design process touches most learning disciplines. Doesn’t simplify for younger students
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The design process is a series of questions. We generate many ideas with "Generative Design" questions and then make our selection with a series of "Deep Reasoning' questions It's the divergent and convergent process.
Ozgie Eris @ Olin College |
 created by Mark Somerville ... Olin College |
On the left side, we see the divergent and convergent thinking happening as many ideas are created and the reduced base on what will work and meet the needs. This is creative and critical thinking. On the right side we see the iterative nature of the process as things are tried, found to need a change and then repeated until it is correct. |
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A problem is nothing more than an opportunity in work clothes. A successful business person pays attention to problems, converting the problems into opportunities and deciding which opportunities are worth pursuing. Thinkertoys, Michael Michalko p22 |
'We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as in insoluble problems. John W Gardner
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 created by Mark Somerville ... Olin College |
What "BUG"
can stimulate many problems to work on.
Can ask the students to bring to class what BUGS them and create a solution for the BUG
As an example: Our problem or design challenge is to find a way to keep the coffee from getting cold. |
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In stories, we find many design challenges the characters have. The students need to follow this process to design a solution for that interesting design challenge. |
| www.idesignthinking.com ; Interesting web site that explores the seven ways of design thinking |