Presenters:

Meredith Davis

Doreen Nelson

Miss Daarina Abdus-Samad 

 

Design in K-12 Education

 

there exists a Masters degree in Design Based Learning at Cal Poly Pomona

 

Meredith Davis

 

makes a distinction between pre-professional education of K-12 students and Teaching other K-12 subjects through design (the panel will talk about the latter). Preparing all students through design.

 

Don't think of yourself as going into the environment to help, rather look at the classroom teachers as content experts.

 

Meredith will talk about standards. 

 

1992 Dept of Labor, SCANS Commision 

 

competencies for productive work

thinking skills

personal qualities

 

creative thinking

decision making

probleme solving skills

 seein in the minds eye

knowin how to learn

reasonin

 

 

responsibility self esteem

socialbility

self management

integrity

 

 

use of resources

use of information...

 

National Science Standards vs National Visual Arts Standards

 

science standards inorporate design knowledge. @061 Bechmarks for science literacy

 

by contrast the visual arts standards absolutely no mention of desigh, it is listed only in the pre-amble as a medium between clay and glass blowing

 

the art ed community doiesnt' understand design in the way that we understand it

 

it may be easuer to get in through other subjetc areas.

 

book called Content Knowledge is a summary of the standards in the 12 areas.

 

references Nigel Cross, Designerly Ways of Knowing. Many teachers perceptions of what design is have to do with physical and mechanical skills, such as drawing. Designers can help with: understanding language, understanding tech understanding people...

 

California tenth grade alnguage arts standards: distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings of words

 

Concept mapping (from Cornell&....) on the creation of narrative diagrams. Very crude materials allow students to understand and share very abstract relationships.

 

California standards are the most specific Meredith has ever seen...

 

trying to figure out how much information there needs to be to make a good scenario

 

looking at scenario building and role play as a way to do deep exploration of content areas, that will reveal and construct knowledge.

 

be collaborative with the teachers and invest in the population.

 

 

Doreen Neslon

Method of Design-Based Learning

 

Doreen was a classroom teacher for 14 years and grabbed the methods from our profession. Constructivist learning is the name for what we do within educational theory. The spatial domain is one that we cover, and is a point within ed theory. The brain continues to process thoghts within the spatial domain, even when one is off task, even when one is sleeping.

 

English Language Learners can move more quickly into english when taught within constructivist, spatial models

 

references the Taxonomy of Learning

 

creativity is at the highest level of the Taxonomy

 

subject of Transfer of Learning

specific transfer, and non-specific transfer area which is concepts, principals, values and morals, what design brings to the classroom is the teaching/learning of those things. References Gardner and Perkins idea of a "Near Experience" and armed with that experience a learner can go someplace. THey call that near experience a hug.

 

Reference Jerome Bruner "If we can find these universal principals, then we can find the common thread, and then we can teach alot of things"

 

Doreen's method is one she calls "Backwards Learning" 

look at the big concept that one wants to teach

"morality" in the example frontward thinking was to read the Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne

she created criterai for an imaginary city that the students proposed morality/behaviors for

need more detail

 

six and 1/2 steps of backwards thinking

1 what do I need to teach?

2 identify a problem from the curriculu

1/2 stat as never before seen design challenge

3 set criteria for assessment (list dont wants and needs based on curriculum standas and conten, plan evaluation

 

4 let student give it a try

build instant 3d models

preent ad get feeback

as how an why

ssess according to prees criteria, talk

talk

talk

write

 

5 teach guided lessons

research information

speak

write

compute

make comparisons

chart, diagram, and map results

 

6 studenst revise design

rebuild models

organia a sequende of challenges

apply lessons 

assess

synthesisz

 

 

in order to do backwards teaching a teacher has to "back off" and not ...... the answer

 

 

 

now examples from a second grade classroom from Miss Daarina Abdus-Samad

Tries to teach students to enjoy learning

is mandated to teach the the standards in a certain way

Case study in the Heart Acre Project

part of her thesis project

Teaches in Norma Coombs Alternative School, Pasadena California

 

Have moved desks and chairs out of the center of the room,

constructed the virtual city in the space

 

her test scores have gone up as she has adopted design-based learning each year for past three years.

 

curriculum integration chart. standards are connected to guided lessons through the design challenge

 

"never before seen" is a criteria for asking/challenging the learners to reach high, to move in the abstract realm of ideas (?did I get that last bit right?)

 

 

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