2022 Teaching & Assessment Symposium
How Might We Engage Our Students in Creating Solutions to Complex Issues? Introduction to Design Thinking
Location
University Center
Description
This workshop will introduce participants to the design thinking process. Design thinking has been used in all types of organizations to devise creative, user-based solutions to complex problems. As a pedagogy, instructors can use design thinking to move students beyond learning theory since design thinking incorporates informed improvisation, risk-taking, and action as students generate, test, and evaluate possible solutions. Design thinking can be an approach to equity since the process itself focuses on minimizing power structures by expecting participation from different stakeholders, designing with the user in mind, examining the bias of the designers through reflection, and allowing for divergent voices and ideas to emerge (Sellers, 2018).
Participants will engage in the different phases of the design thinking process such as empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (d.school, 2010). Through this interactive workshop participants will experience activities that are part of the design thinking process. They will see examples of design thinking units in practice and explore student outcomes. Participants will discuss the benefits and challenges of using design thinking to approach authentic, adaptive challenges within their content and gain resources for incorporating design thinking into their instructional practices.
How Might We Engage Our Students in Creating Solutions to Complex Issues? Introduction to Design Thinking
University Center
This workshop will introduce participants to the design thinking process. Design thinking has been used in all types of organizations to devise creative, user-based solutions to complex problems. As a pedagogy, instructors can use design thinking to move students beyond learning theory since design thinking incorporates informed improvisation, risk-taking, and action as students generate, test, and evaluate possible solutions. Design thinking can be an approach to equity since the process itself focuses on minimizing power structures by expecting participation from different stakeholders, designing with the user in mind, examining the bias of the designers through reflection, and allowing for divergent voices and ideas to emerge (Sellers, 2018).
Participants will engage in the different phases of the design thinking process such as empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (d.school, 2010). Through this interactive workshop participants will experience activities that are part of the design thinking process. They will see examples of design thinking units in practice and explore student outcomes. Participants will discuss the benefits and challenges of using design thinking to approach authentic, adaptive challenges within their content and gain resources for incorporating design thinking into their instructional practices.
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