Today mari and I went to south campus to meet Paula who is director of the K-12 programs at the Public Programs office. Paula gave us insight about the Design Based Learning Program for K-12 Teachers. She explained about the programs briefly like how it works, why it is different with other teaching tools using textbook and how it can evoke students’ creativity. Plus she gave us a various directions and tips for our own workshop. We can get inspirations by her guidance. It was really helpful for us.
First, she asked us starting from our own experiences such as ‘what was the best and memorable class and teacher in my school life.’ And why it was so memorable.
Here are the several things we learned from one hour-talk
1. The experience begins at the beginning.
2. What problem we want to solve and we want to convey through the workshop, which is our subject.
3. Allow people talk and discuss so conceptualize their own thoughts, experiences.
4. Consider the take away experience – what happen after the workshop
5. Use what we know to connect with our audience – help unravel the repression people have placed on their creativity.
6. Balance what we show versus what we tell. Leave things open for interpretation.
7. How can we bring people attention to a problem?
Thank you Paula!
Besides meeting with Ms. Goodman (which was really like a breath of fresh air), we also read more on participatory design and watched TED talks on creativity and design education:
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with something original.”
Design is in the Details
Paul Bennett
This week, Mari and I narrowed down our main workshop question as well as came up with a plan of action for the next month. Our goal by week 10 is conduct a test run of our workshop (details to come):
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OUR SCHEDULE:
wk7: workshop samples/ research
wk8: no class – work on proposal to submit to design conference
wk9: present finalized proposal, present refined workshop models
wk10: test run workshop
