PROTOTYPE

A CASE FOR PROBLEM BASED LEARNING

? - What parts of this talk resonate with you? What parts do not align with your experience or perspective?

• The part that resonates most with me is the idea that education should be personalized towards you.
• This brings up the point that we focus on what we are good at and people with certain strengths benefit the group in their unique ways.
• Creating a group of learners with specialties.
• I agree with all of the ideas presented in the video, the trouble would be creating a system to actually make this education system possible.

Let's apply our design process to generate some ideas for solutions to the issues Sir Ken raises. ? - If you had to boil the talk down to its core element, what is the problem Sir Ken Robinson is presenting?

• The problem presented is how to educate children to take their places in the economy.

? - With this theme in mind, how can we design experiences for our Creative Problem Solver's curriculum that facilitate a top notch experience for students? ? - Brainstorm 20 things that have either been or would be "bright spots" in your learning experience. Be specific!

1. Create a personality test
2. create an academic strength test
3. Don’t categorize by age but by discipline
4. Organize class where people with similar strengths sit at the same table
5. Put students who are morning people in first period class and night people in a later class
6. Find students that work well in big groups, small groups or on their own and divide the students
7. Keep interesting videos/discussions like this one
8. Investigate who falls into academic/non-academic categories
9. Help students find interests
10. Help students have career goals for the future
11. Keep all student types involved by alternating activities
12. Balance class time with learning and hands on activity
13. Keep some class engineering projects relevant to world issues (like Chilean Miners)
14. Ask for student donations of $20 at the beginning of the year to help fund the class
15. More TED-related videos
16. Keep the problem solving activities
17. Do daily life problem solving activities
18. Allow friends to work together only if they are productive
19. Have and A-grade student help ones who are less interested one day a week
20. Have an A-grade student give advice on organization planning and work habit to struggling students

DESIGN THINKING

Stanford D.School Bootcamp Bootleg

The difference in the two design processes is empathy. Adding empathy to the design process:

• Makes products more user friendly
• Makes the brainstorming process easier
• Puts you more in the shoes of others
• Allows people to relate to each other through product or design process

LOCKER DESIGN

Client: Mr. Mueller

Target Consumer: High school students

Designer: Philip & Team

Problem Statement:
School lockers are a mess. Students can never find a pen, pencil, or calculator, and their homework is always getting lost. Those who bring their lunch to school often find their food crushed under a sea of books and binders. Because of the clutter, it is often hard for students to close their locker doors completely.

Design Statement/Criteria:

• Design a high school locker organization system to satisfy Mr. Mueller's need, and that will neatly contain items commonly used and kept in school.

Constraints:

• Design must fit within your school locker.
• Easy to install.
• Must hold 20 lbs of books and binders.
• No flammable materials.

Process:
Break into your 2 person teams to collaborate with a partner on this project. Work with them to investigate the physical constraints of our CHS lockers.

Design Phase

• Identify the Problem: Find a solution for disorganized school lockers
• Investigate the CHS lockers
• Brainstorm Solutions
• Sketch Three Possible Solutions (include labels and important dimensions)

SKETCH #1:SKETCH #2SKETCH #3

• Select an Approach (justify selection with specifics): I chose cardboard dipped in flame retardant because the design was the most simple, uses the least expensive materials and is more environmentally friendly than plastic. This design was chosen as a blend of my other ideas and contains the best parts of many ideas.
  

My Design in CAD: