Learning Through Doing

Learning Through Doing

1. The need for new designs

   • New conditions and broader and more complex learning goals, call for a developmental response, drawing on design methods that have been created to develop solutions to urgent problems.

2. The discipline of design

   • organisations around the world have developed methods to manage these processes of development and change. By working with design thinking, schools and their partners are increasing their capacity to radically improve their practice in the face of new conditions and challenges.
   • Design processes
     • FOCUSED ON A PROBLEM:
       • they continually define and refine a focus on a particular challenge or problem
     • DRIVEN BY EMPATHY:
       • they employ specific methods to understand the needs of users (learners, families and communities)
     • COLLABORATIVE
       • they create opportunities for participants from different sectors, backgrounds or contexts to work together and contribute, supported by some shared language and goals
     • CLEAR AND TANGIBLE
       • they use tools and processes that are visual and handson to support collaborative working and to better investigate ideas and concepts
     • FAIL-SAFE-FAIL-FAST
       • they use prototyping techniques, cheaply and at small scale, testing and refining ideas by trying things out
     • CAPACITY-BUILDING
       • they actively build the competencies and capabilities of those involved to continually develop, refine and embed new ways of working

3. The design methodology

   • Stimulate
     • Begin with a process of stimulating awareness of a problem, for example a case for change that set out why schools need to change to enable more engaging learning.
     • › Understand the issues ›Horizon scanning ›Animate innovators ›Generate insights & ideas
   • Incubate
     • Once you have defined the problem and created the conditions for innovators to respond, the next step is to explore, generate and evaluate solutions to the problem
     • Explore
       • The incubation phase starts by learning more about the background and context of the focus of enquiry, in particular the relevant people involved
     • Generate
       • Once a design team has established a firm, shared understanding of the problem as experienced by users, it is time to begin generating concrete solutions.
     • Evaluate
       • The generate phase will result in one or more potential solutions that have been developed and refined through a process of rapid prototyping.
   • Scale
     • Scaling has typically been seen as a simple problem of knowledge transfer: if a solution is ‘good’, others just need to hear about it and they will want and be able to adopt it.

Imagens e arquivos do mapa

• The Best Kept Secret - Design Thinking: Deana McDonagh at TEDxUIUC 2013 (Incorporar)
• What is Design Thinking (Incorporar)