Session 4: Design Thinking as Pedagogy: Makerspaces, Serious Play, Threshold Concepts, and Curricular Planning
Overview
March 12 2022, 5:15 – 10:15am
This session is a deep dive into the pedagogical potential of design thinking and related approaches such as making / DIY/ serious play. We will do an activity on curricular planning and identifying threshold concepts in the learning content. Our guest speaker Anat Shabi is an expert on Lego Serious Play, a fascinating approach to problem solving and strategy building. Michael Vaughn knows how to run a maker space, but more importantly, he has some interesting thoughts on why making is a worthwhile activity.
Handouts, Slides, Recordings
Session 4: Recordings
Introduction Guest Speaker Michael Vaughn Guest Speaker Anat Shabi
Session 4: Summary & Slides
Slides AUW Session 4 – email-concise Summary We covered a lot of ground in this session. From learning theories, to pedagogy and lesson planning, to maker culture and serious play, this session was all about changing minds through play and making. … Read more
Session 4: Quick Learn Video
Learning Theories
Guest Speakers
9:15am EDT
Anat Shabi is a prolific advocate for ‘Lego Serious Play’. She has been integrating creativity and serious play into training online and offline workshops for the past decade.
8:15am EDT
Michael Vaughn is an instructional designer and making expert who worked in higher ed for 15 years helping faculty, staff, and students find new and meaningful ways to use technology to enhance their teaching and learning.
Readings
Meyer, J., & Land, R. (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge: Linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines (pp. 412-424). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.3389&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Noel, L. A., & Liub, T. L. (2017). Using design thinking to create a new education paradigm for elementary level children for higher student engagement and success. Design and Technology Education, 22(1). 1-12. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1137735.pdf
Vaughn, M. (2017). How making and makerspaces promote healthy mindsets for learning. http://michael-vaughn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/How-Making-and-Makerspaces-Promote-Healthy-Mindsets-for-Learning.pdf
Lego Serious Play. LSP: Open-source. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8n2drwvqq5tzqdl/LSP_Open_Source.pdf?dl=0
Schön, S., Ebner, M., & Grandl, M. (2018, October). Designing a Makerspace for Children–Let’s Do It. In International Conference EduRobotics 2016 (pp. 3-15). Springer, Cham.
Stanford Biodesign. (2015, February 6). IDEO: Brainstorming and other ideation techniques [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/xXsHI_VlhmY
Stanford d.school Design Thinking Bootleg: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57c6b79629687fde090a0fdd/t/5b19b2f2aa4a99e99b26b6bb/1528410876119/dschool_bootleg_deck_2018_final_sm+%282%29.pd
IDEO.org. (n.d.). Mindsets. Retrieved August 07, 2020, from https://www.designkit.org/methods
Mindful Marks. (2018, June 9). Design thinking: Prototype [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Q4MzT2MEDHA
Da. R., & Siang, T. (2017). Stage 4 in the design thinking process: Prototype. Interaction Design Foundation. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/stage-4-in-the-design-thinking-process-prototype
Dow, S. (2011). How prototyping practices affect design results. Interactions, 18(3), 54–59. https://doi.org/10.1145/1962438.1962451
Cerejo, L. (2010, June 16). Design better and faster with rapid prototyping. Smashing. https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/design-better-faster-with-rapid-prototyping/
Zuiker, S., Jordan, M. & the Learning Landscapes Team (2019). Inter-Organizational Design Thinking in Education: Joint Work between Learning Sciences Courses and a Zoo Education Program. Open Education Studies, 1(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1515/edu-2019-0001
Student summaries:
- What is Serious Play? Summarize and discuss the guest lecture by Anat Shabi.
- Why can making help students learn better? Summarize and discuss the guest lecture by Michael Vaughn.
- What are threshold concepts? Document and discuss the group activity ‘threshold concepts’.