Spring - Design Thinking -PBL-Badging and more

Returning from April school vacation and thinking about the next 4-6 weeks as we wrap up the school year.  We have been working on Google Workspace credentials and a Digital Passport with badging credentials.  This has caused me to revisit options for other 21st Century Skills here and badging. With our district focus on SEL I thought it would be a good opportunity to looks at skills such as Empathy, Resilience, Collaboration and Digital Fluency just to have a few. Many of these skills connected with the topics of Design Thinking and PBL.

Learn more about badging here 

 

In addition to exploring badging during the first trimester of school I provided students with choice boards and topics. I introduced them to a DT lesson the design chair challenge with students and after survey the them, they requested more lessons from incorporating the design thinking challenge. I have seen these challenges work well at the high school level and plan to experiment more over the upcoming weeks.

PBL https://www.pblworks.org/get-started 

Here is a resource from @CommonSenseEd 8 Steps to Implementing Design Thinking in Your Classroom https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/8-steps-to-implementing-design-thinking-in-your-classroom 

In the past I have used the Stanford d school wallet challenge and recently found Teaching Entrepreneurship online Design the Ideal Wallet version - (Here is the Wallet Facilitator Guide & Worksheets)

I may combine the options above with student designed choiceboards eith exosndrd options.

Options from a previous post last fall as I closed out the semester  http://techdi.blogspot.com/2020/10/choiceboards-and-design-your-own.html?m=1 along with other resources to explore!

1 Caitlin Tucker https://catlintucker.com/2016/04/design-your-own-digital-choice-board/

2. https://twitter.com/shakeuplearning/status/1260361115478958080?s=21

Stay tuned as we design and post our year end choiceboards next week!