Module 3 — Hunter College

For this project, I explored Design Thinking for Educators, which included five steps.

1. Discovery
2. Interpretation
3. Ideation
4. Experimentation
5. Evolution
6. Enjoy (I added this one to celebrate the process)

My project was about designing a new garden in my yard.  During covid, I discovered that I love to garden and have been slowly turning my yard from grass to gardens, adding a new one each year.  The design thinking supported the process I take during the planning and implementation stages of gardening.

I used canvas for this project and explored their infographic designs which helped to structure the work.  I learned how many options they have for graphics and how easy it is to create and share with this tool.  I noticed in downloading my print that I lost some of the movement in the work that was available on Canva.  Like Google, this tool can be shared with a link, which I liked and also downloaded and attached.  I did both here to show the difference.

Link to canva: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFkk8OjfWY/AGRU_1L12QuXEDF7CfqLww/edit?utm_content=DAFkk8OjfWY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

I explored the Padlet resources – I love the Liberatory Design process and paper proto typing to  build a game. I settle on the ADDIE design process and google slides – below. I am making a plan for how to improve the AI-powered classroom so that teachers can use it in Learning Lab next year. Lots of user experience things to work on before we add the computational thinking task.

Teaching with Grace Design Challenge

Rhonda

There is so much to learn in this module! I am glad that I signed up for CITE — what a great opportunity to add some new tools to my tool box while gaining new insights about mindsets and design thinking!

I love visual representations. For this project, I benefited most from Design Thinking for Educators. The five phases of design thinking (–discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation and evolution–) remind me of the learning processes that my students go through in Literacy Practicum course where they take ownership of their professional learning through a teacher-focused inquiry process that involves two phases of the teaching/observation cycle. I used to represent the process as a Google slide. See link below:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1voCN2tAiWsn2FP3LzBKP7gOQ56_EOq4I_YbXtdi6drI/edit?usp=sharing

Drawing inspiration from Design Thinking for Educators, I redesigned the visual representation using Canvas. I also added a second slide– a step-by-step guide to get students started on the line of inquiry. See link below:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1voCN2tAiWsn2FP3LzBKP7gOQ56_EOq4I_YbXtdi6drI/edit?usp=sharing

I think the new design is much more explanatory than the old one.  I liked that Canvas is user-friendly. It is much more versetile than PowerPoint or Google Slide. It is becoming my new favorite tool!

Hello,

It was really interesting to learn more about the design process!  I’ve very intrigued by speculative design and want to know more about how this type of design pushes complex ideas forward.  Reading that part made me think of Kurbrick’s 2001 and how when that movie was made in 1968 none of those technologies existed or even were in our collective imaginations (dreams maybe) – now they are realities!  I guess there are lots of great examples from science fiction of speculative design.  I, however, chose Design Thinking for Educators.  I appreciate the simplicity and could easily apply it to my work in student teaching seminar.  I chose to visually represent the process that (novice) student teachers engage in when they enter a new school for the first time as start learning and teaching.  I used Canva.  I love Canva!  It’s so easy to use and the designs are awesome.

While thinking through my personal design process and the design process I support my ECSE SPED teacher candidates in engaging in, I reflected on the mindsets discusses in the Design Thinking for Educators handbook.

The general process of problem solving seems obvious to many teacher candidates. However, the mindset and mental approach makes all the difference when analyzing the challenges, proposing solutions, and implementing change. The DTE Handbook highlights human-centered, collaborative, optimistic, and experimental approaches. Most importantly it empowers the agents of change (the students, educators, and community).

I built my design model around empowering students to be a part of the design and problem solving process.

Design Process

I’ve used Google Slides for years and have rarely used the feature for creating diagrams or charts. Limitations include only having 5 steps per diagram, though I just made a few quick changes to make my 10 step process.

Hello!

I thought about the process of the Capstone Inquiry Project that my TESOL students complete throughout the semester. I was interested in the Liberatory Design Process and I tried to incorporate some of the language in my model. I used Google Slides, which I am not new to, but I wanted to figure out a way for my presentation to play on its own on a loop to represent the cyclical nature of inquiry. I figured out that using the publish to web feature will do just that!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSStFVdM9R-ZTdkCd7RW1Mo6Q7hEpuOiyue1mX2L4aSQR18iB33H6weJBsXVTnyOhvdALI_4wbC_Pxb/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=1000

In Learning Lab we have teacher candidates working with students in grades 6-12. This summer, Rhonda and I are looking to generate some activities that would be universally accessible, with frictionless entry to design and critical thinking, that will allow us to capture some aspects of problem solving and creativity as well as support teachers in feedback to encourage and shape curiosity and questioning.

I chose the Liberatory Design Framework and used Loopy (first time for me) to map out the simple framework.

I think this keep it simple design can assist in making tasks that work for students at many different entry points as we plan.

The only thing I’d say about Loopy that I didn’t like – because I am very visual and the dragging and shifting of objects to find the model that feels right was right up my alley – was the inability to format text in the label. Maybe I missed an option but it bothered me that I could not seem to adjust how the text looked on my visual.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fdONz43e5BqEHR3UAzF7UnmKnVPj1vJd/view?usp=sharing

Hello, this was such an exciting module! I wanted to use a design process similar to the one used by middle schoolers in the Vaccine Game, because the artifact I envision creating will have similar interactive features. I found that the Design for Thinking for Educators Toolkit was parallel to what was used in the design of that project. I utilized Loopy because I had never used it before and wanted to learn how to use a new tool. I found Loopy very easy to learn and interactive but a little limiting regarding the levels of connections one can create to illustrate systems. I would like it if I had more fonts and colors and, in general, more opportunities to label different parts of the graph.

As someone who uses graphics to conceptualize my thinking, Loopy is a great tool for simple charts. Here is my graph (I hope the link works!):

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For my Design Process, I looked to the Chicago Public Schools’ Community Toolkit which had a wealth of resources and ideas for how to get buy-in from the stake-holders we attempt to impress and the people we serve (who don’t always get a voice).

Check out my Padlet (finally got the arrows to connect my content – yay!): https://padlet.com/btonyjean1/my-design-process-30q7h49khf4iz0km

<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>For this project, I explored Design Thinking for Educators. Initially, I was going to use the steps in the process (Discovery, Interpretation, Ideation, Experimentation, and Evolution) to consider meal planning for my family for a week. After playing around with what that would look like, I started thinking about assignments in my literacy course that I might tinker with.
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>I settled on using the Design Thinking framework to describe an assignment which involves selecting a culturally relevant book to read with a student, using a rubric to guide the process. I’ve been wanting to learn Canva so this was a perfect opportunity to get into it. I began looking for cycle templates to describe this process but couldn’t find anything that supported the amount of text I wanted to include. Kristen’s garden project inspired me to try the infographic templates instead. I liked how easy it was to start with an attractive template and to “re-mix” the design with new stickers and text. I spent entirely too much time tinkering on Canva, and it’s still not perfect, but here is the link to my project on selecting and reading culturally relevant text. It seems you have to be logged into Canva to view it.
<p style=”font-weight: 400;”>Link to Canva: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFlVxLt3hI/i-Nr0itKviK0-kCHvPIyOQ/edit?utm_content=DAFlVxLt3hI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Hi all,

Lots to take in from this module. I explored the different design process resources and realized I haven’t thought about ‘my process’ in some time. I enjoyed seeing the radical ideas in Speculate Everthing but wanted to find something more related to education planning so I am focusing more on the Liberatory Design and Design Thinking for Educators. Next, I tried an activity to think about design process over a dinner out – drawing on the paper table cloth and taking breaks for food and wine. It was fun!

A lot of the presentation tools I haven’t used so I signed up for a few, and explored but never found exactly what I was looking for. I experimented with Miro and started a flow chart but want to return to this when I have a better idea for my artifact.

Hi, everyone!

Wow! I explored all of the tools to help conceptualize my artifact for the summer. Some were familiar, others, not so much. While I did not narrow down my choices, I had fun!

The Leading for Equity framework (act-see-engage) can guide students in creating pathways to equitable math instruction for children in Kindergarten-Grade 2. The framework provides a foundation for students to reference as they plan their lessons, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection on their own biases as they seek to develop an anti-racist/anti-bias math practice.

The Leading for Equity framework provides students with a method for deepening content understanding; creating environments and practices that support children’s social, emotional and content development; and connecting English language learning and the development of mathematical thinking.

My plan is to build on what the students already know and have a familiarity with. This was such an exhilarating exercise and I am looking forward to begin working on my artifact.

~ Carmen

Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/119OBvPEKXZFA4ovuJnpgBN0E1s-RgUPY9jUu-gmg6dc/viewer?f=0

In my limited career – I have used – participated in a lot of different approaches to design. Some were aligned to the the ideas of viral justice, speculate everything as well as the student surfacing thinking around Skratch – others are more inquiry based on some like on my dissertation are around the multimodal design – I am sharing an inquiry – design project that I did (shared) as part of a larger Connected Arts Network (that includes 50 National Theatre Teachers) – I am sharing the context in PPT – but the student video is really the interesting part of multimodal design –

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fmptut7LXyOm26AZrOTS9KXa68bOkYVdghFqaYpTRSQ/edit?usp=sharing

I decided to show you how I assemble my outfits for the jazz age lawn party. I think the processes we go through daily reveal a lot about our learning/ working styles. Think about the way you cook, plan you trips, food shop and assemble your outfits for the next day? Does your brain tend to work in a similar way doing these daily activities. I think teacher candidates need to learn about themselves to become confident and efficient lesson/unit planners. Not one person plans in the same way just like not one person does the laundry the same way.  It’s essential to self assess, reflect and understand yourself to be able to collaborate. Here is my process:

Hi everyone,

Still catching up here!  I tried Miro and Loppy since they were new tools for me.  I found Loppy pretty limiting because it was just about circles.  Meh. I was initially excited about Miro especially the idea of making a kind of card game and the interaction/collaboration factor.  However, when I tried to redo some cards in a template I found that they were fixed graphic cards and I could not edit the text on the card.  Bummer. So in the end I was underwhelmed and went back to a tool I knew for infographics, Canva. I messed around with animation more than I had in the past, and tried to make something I might use in the Literacy and Tech class I teach.  I still don’t think it is exactly what I want to portray in terms of a process for finding the right text for readers.  My students make a text set and I always like them to visualize a recursive process when it comes to finding texts kids would like to learn from. Even though I have some limited animation here, it is not that exciting and the text is too small to read when animated as a video…  In terms of privacy — for tools like these I am always using school accounts. I was not surprised by the way they are using info to third parties.  When I ask my students to tell true stories about themselves I use tech like BookCreator because of privacy settings I like better than these tools.

Oh, and my process of design?  I like game design because I get to PLAY!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Christine Rosalia (she/her).
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Hi everyone. Kristen’s beautiful image of her garden design process inspired me to try out Canva. I used a “timeline template” to illustrate how I thought about designing, implementing, and revising the new HTPA that we piloted this past Spring in our Bilingual Education Student Teaching Seminar/Practicum. The link to the document is below:

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFmkpbKr5k/bjIV2lAta-cMI9SRX2hwLw/edit?utm_content=DAFmkpbKr5k&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

I didn’t read their privacy policy because… it seems we have to “accept all cookies” nowadays on every site, no? Do we even have a choice anymore with regards to our privacy? However, I did check out the settings on my new Canva account. I always turn off notifications and I unsubscribe from email updates when I register for a new app/site. For example, I opted out of Canva’s “insights collection.” I can’t deal with an unruly email inbox! 😀

I am interested in digital notebooks (dNB) in teaching and learning science, particularly in high school settings. I have created two iterations of dNB. Each dNB was created using Google Slides. Google Slides allow real-time collaboration among users. I read the privacy policy. One thing that stood out to me is that users are reassured that the work done on the application is private, and they have control over who has access to the task. A huge drawback to using Google Slides is the necessity of an internet connection to use the platform. Although recently, Google applications have been allowing users to work offline. I have yet to explore this option. In the Google Slide presentation that I attached to this post are hyperlinks to dNB iterations 1.0 and 2.0.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hDyjT3bQHnHTNRgVIryXGi2WHp5mj2M4r2jn6nXZeK8/edit?usp=sharing

For this module I decided to use Canva for the first time. I “tinkered” with Jamboard and Loopy, but ultimately chose Canva because it was the easiest to operate as a beginner-and visually appealing for a step-process approach. I also think this would be helpful for my teacher candidates to in turn use with their own students, and I could easily see myself incorporating it into an assignment.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFmvv6dlR0/Tj5x-uWR5963KojCHY401A/view?utm_content=DAFmvv6dlR0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink