Design Thinking in the Classroom – Course Schedule
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 5-6
- IDEO Toolkit, pages 29-37, optional Workbook pages 11-13
Watch:
- Tim Brown, Designers–Think Big!, TED Talk.
Do:
Due: Assignment 1 due via email prior to starting this week’s module.
Read:
- Burnett and Evans, Designing Your Life
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 4
- IDEO Toolkit, pages 1-8
Watch:
- Emily Pilloton, “Teaching Design for Change” TED Talk
- Karen’s Story, IDEO for Educator’s Toolkit
Do:
Due: Assignment 2 due via email prior to starting this week’s module.
Introduce Design Research Project, findings due week 5, presentation or paper due week 6.
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 5-6
- IDEO Toolkit, pages 29-37, optional Workbook pages 11-13
- Salman Khan, from The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, pages 61-81.
Do:
Due: Assignment 3 due via email prior to starting this week’s module.
Review:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 6
Optional Reading and Sources
- Kwek, S.H. (2011). Innovation in the Classroom: Design Thinking for 21st Century Learning. (Master’s thesis). Retrieved from https://web.stanford.edu/group/redlab/cgi-bin/materials/Kwek-Innovation%20In%20The%20Classroom.pdf
- Anderson, Ken. (March 2009) Ethnographic Research: A Key to Strategy. Harvard Business Review.
Due: research findings
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 7: Navigating Ideas
- IDEO Toolkit 38-47, and Workbook 18-23
Do:
- Set up collaborators’ Insights meeting Week 5-6
- Design Research midterm Presentation or Paper with Insights due week 6 (or 7 at the latest)
Due: Design Research Paper or Presentation
Read or Review:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 7
- Ideo Toolkit pages 48-55
Optional Scholarly Research
- Scott G. Isaksen, Center for Studies in Creativity and Sidney J. Parnes, Creative Education Foundation (2013) Curriculum Planning for Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. http://www.cpsb.com/research/articles/creative-problem-solving/Curr-Planning-CPS.html
Watch:
- David Kelley, “How to Build Your Creative Confidence,” TED Talk
Do:
- Assignment 4: Deciding on an Idea
- Begin Final Project
Due: Assignment 4 (via email) prior to starting this week’s module.
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 8
Optional Reading:
- Phyllis C. Blumenfeld, Elliot Soloway, Ronald W. Marx, Joseph S. Krajcik, Mark Guzdial & Annemarie Palincsar (1991) “Motivating Project-Based Learning: Sustaining the Doing, Supporting the Learning,” Educational Psychologist Vol. 26 Iss. 3-4, 1991.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00461520.1991.9653139
- Christensen, C. M., Johnson, C. W., & Horn, M. B. (2008). Disrupting class. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. Abstract for this book at: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d443/2c91ae21392ef6d2dc9d2533ca30f9c21938.pdf
- Ellen Dissanayake. Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (1992) Free Press. https://ellendissanayake.com/books/homo_aestheticus.php
- Trung Le. “Teaching Kids Design Thinking So They Can Solve The World’s Biggest Problems” Co.Design. March 15, 2011. https://www.fastcodesign.com/1663416/teaching-kids-design-thinking-so-they-can-solve-the-worlds-biggest-problems
- Ronald W. Marx , Phyllis C. Blumenfeld , Joseph S. Krajcik , and Elliot Soloway , “Enacting Project-Based Science,” The Elementary School Journal 97, no. 4 (Mar., 1997): 341-358.http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/461870
Do: DT Assignment 5
Week 8: Get Feedback
Due: Assignment 5 due via email prior to starting this week’s module
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 9
Week 9: Evolution
Read:
- Spencer and Juliani, Launch, Chapter 10
- IDEO Toolkit, pages 60-65
Week 10: Final Projects
Due: Final Project due for all students, with short paper due for 4/5 students and additional research due for 5 credit/graduate students
Reflection and evaluation due by week 11