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Computing Integrated Teacher Education (CITE) @ CUNY
Computing Integrated Teacher Education is a four-year initiative to support CUNY faculty at all ranks to integrate state standards aligned computing content and pedagogy into required education courses, field work and student teaching. Supported by public funding from the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) Computer Science for All (CS4All) program and private funding from the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund, the initiative will focus on building on and complementing the success of NYCDOE CS4All and pilots to integrate computational thinking at Queens College, Hunter College and Hostos Community College.
The initiative focuses on:
– Supporting institutional change in teacher education programs
– Building faculty computing pedagogical content knowledge through the lens of culturally response-sustaining education
– Supporting faculty research in equitable computing education, inclusive STEM pedagogies, and effects on their students’ instructional practices
Admins:
Module 3 — Hunter College
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Posted by Aankit Patel (he/him/his) on May 23, 2023 at 3:58 pmBackground
- The design process is at the center of our work together this summer.
Task
- We invite you to visually represent or model your own design process using some digital tool.
- You can capture how you design or make anything — whether it’s related to your work as a teacher educator or not.
- You can share your typical design process, or create a vision for a more idealized or aspirational design process.
- We think doing this will help you learn a new digital tool, and to help you think intentionally about your design process in advance of our work together this summer.
To complete this task:
To visualize your design process, select and use a digital tool – preferably one that’s new to you or that you want more practice with. You can use one of the ones we recommend below, or locate your own.
NOTE: Some of these require you to create accounts. If you’d like, take a look at the privacy policies of these tools to see if the benefits of signing up would outweigh the risks for you.
- Miro – create a free account (privacy policy)
- Padlet – click sign in with “Microsoft” and use your @login.cuny.edu email (the one you use for CUNYFirst) to get a CUNY account. (privacy policy)
- Jamboard – you’ll need a Google account (privacy policy)
- Loopy – no account needed, open source tool! (no privacy policy, see FAQ)
- Canva – create a free account (privacy policy)
- PowerPoint – available in CUNY’s office suite (privacy policy)
- Google Slides – you’ll need a Google account (privacy policy)
Stuck?
- Consult any online tutorials the tool may have on their site
- Try sketching something on paper first, or do some free-writing to generate ideas about how you generally go about design!
- Make multiple “rapid prototype” iterations until something feels right.
- If you’re stuck on something, we encourage you to troubleshoot. Google around, use your colleagues as resources, or go to our help sessions on Mondays!
To Share:
- Reply to this thread.
- Add a brief reflection:
- Share something new you learned about the tool you used.
- Did you look at the privacy policy? Did anything stand out there?
- Share any limitations of the tool that you used that you discovered.
- You can share your work as a link, or an attachment to this discussion thread
- If you’d like to embed an image in your post, you’ll have to upload it somewhere first (for example at imgur). Then use the image icon in the discussion forum to link to it.
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For this project, I explored Design Thinking for Educators, which included five steps.
- Discovery
- Interpretation
- Ideation
- Experimentation
- Evolution
- 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.
Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.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.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Correction! Just noticed that the Canva link above is wrong! Here is the correct one:
Sorry about that!
Yang
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.
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!
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
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You must be logged in to view attached files.I decided to think deeply about one of my favorite work responsibilities: Designing/Redesigning courses/classes. I love that time of the year when we need to create and revise syllabi (I know, SO nerdy)…so I thought I’d think about and make transparent what that process looks like for me. I decided to use Canva because I made an account last year–and dabbled a bit in making smaller designs–but I haven’t really done that much more with it. Today I used the function for making a chart which took way too much time on my part…I find that I really get in the weeds with making things look perfect so in some ways these tools end up making what was once a simple task a more difficult one. That being said, it looks way better than anything I’ve created–and it was quite fun to create. As to the privacy policy–I did not read it. I know, I know…this seems ridiculous but honestly if someone wants to steal my design process for planning courses–I’d be THRILLED!!
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!):
Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.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=sharebuttonJody, I love that step one is to begin with the students. Thanks for reminding us and emphasizing why we do this work.
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.
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