MUCH HAS BEEN SAID AND WRITTEN ABOUT THE CHANGE OF THE ROLE A TEACHER PLAYS IN THE CLASSROOM AND IT TO BE CHANGED TO GUIDE ON THE SIDE FROM THE OLD SAGE ON THE STAGE ROLE!
This new way of thinking by the “NEW” designers of educating wants teachers to redesign the way student or pupil thinks to dynamic, collaborative and or creative problem-solving approach and do this by presenting a unique model with which to facilitate it towards the class instead of the old “IMPARTING OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE” ways of the old way.
THE PROCESS OF DESIGN THINKING:
While coming from the roots of design and or innovative sector of thought, this process of thinking can be used anywhere and yes indeed in the classroom quite well as per the new age thinkers and educator planning schemes especially in the 21st century.
This all comes from the idea of problem-solving through sorting through information and finding through mutual collaboration and iterating solutions they find based on what is called real-world and authentic feedback.
This can not only be used as a new way of teaching but a new way to run the school but that’s a question or story for another day.
Practitioners of this way of thinking say the teaching have different steps all depending on the student/pupils needs :
1) Design
2) Get Feedback
3) Identify Opportunity
4) Present
5) Prototype
6) Scale and Spread
Working in small groups the design thinking steps put into action a plan or task where the groups, also known as “Collabs” had to come up with the exploration of the question: How can we create means to a greater learning principle to gear us for tangible progress to meaningful goals?
Using the improve of comedy to help maintain the new culture of flexibility, support positively, and risk-taking and with a basic ground rule of working together(where if you disagree instead of saying “yes, but” you just say “yes”) each Collab was headed by a trained facilitator with this new driving question in hand and set off to complete the task.
By breaking through the thorny issues that plague our negative thinking, this is a very important lesson as they have to come up with at least one prototype to solve an aspect of the problem or question on hand
This whole idea breeds the idea of not tackling the big issue all at once but solving small parts one at a time which eventually leads to the solving of the big issue as an outcome
SIX DESIGN THINKING STEPS:
By following these six-step formats for design thinking, we can solve these problems:=
Step 1: Identify Opportunity
Step 2: Design Process
Step 3: Prototype Phase
Step 4: Feedback
Step 5: Scale and Spread
Step 6: Present
So after spending almost six hours with nine groups of kids we came up with some great prototypes and three of them were so great they got some support to work in progress for prototypes into working products
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