EDT 563 Embedding Design Thinking in the Learning Process: Recent Episodes
Dan Ryder
Podcasts for each week of EDT 563 a UMaine Online course about design thinking, education, technology, and human centered, empathy fueled problem solving
A brief discussion of five dimensions of a design thinking mindset that greatly improve your chances of authentic problem solving:
- fail up
- yes, and
- bias to action
- lean into the squish
- create with intention
Companion Slides
In this first episode of the Fall 2022 season we briefly discuss the User Manual design challenge and take stock of where we are at with EDT 563
This Turkey Break, do try and take a break. And then upon return, you can begin in earnest on your DT quick start guide for an audience of your choosing that you can see yourself wanting to familiarize with design thinking as you move forward after our course wraps. It is the last major assessment of the course.
But really . . . for Turkey Break . . . take a break. In this episode I explain why.
A little update on how class is going, a little walk through of the assignments for this week, and a look into November as well
In this week's installment, I yammer on about finding and uncovering problems as we head into DISCOVER phase of our big independent design challenge summative assessment: how might we address a problem in our learning, civic, or business community? Two posts for our critical conversations this week -- one about 99 Percent Invisible and one about identifying problems worth solving. And a look ahead into the not so distant future, also known as Week 7.
This week . . . take some nice deep cleansing breaths . . in through the nose and out through the mouth as I let you know what's coming next in EDT 563 for Week 5.
This overview of Week 2 in EDT 563 Fall 2020 provides the intentional choice to provide scant information during Week 1. And then the episode goes on to describe both of the critical conversation blog prompts for this week -- Pantry the Process and Build an Empathy Survey.
In this latest episode of EDT 598, I briefly discuss the course outcomes and how to pull together evidence from the design thinking work you've done that demonstrates those course outcomes.
EDT 598: Empathy Phase. I discuss how impressed I am with the work you've done thus far and lay out the work for the empathy phase as well as the what is coming up in the future of EDT 598.
Discussing the work of the discovery phase of your first authentic design challenge -- this one at the scale of classroom, department/grade level or school.
In this episode of EDT 598 Future Ready/Design Thinking I share the next steps with your User Manuals, the lighter lift of this week (only the 2 blog posts) and I introduce ever so briefly the concept of a wonderwalk so you can start the process of identifying the classroom/school-based need you'd like to address in our next design challenge
Week 1 of the Fall 2018 edition of EDT 598 Future Ready: design thinking in the learning process