Hacking Design Thinking
Design Thinking and Negotiated Curriculum
With Eli and Dan
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Why us? Why now?
Why us?
We’ve co-taught units together • We like PLP’s • We UbD • Hacking PBL • Learn Like a Pirate
Why now?
New teams at Main Street • UDL professional development • Act 77 • We have a Google/Montshire maker grant • Reflections from last year
We used MGI to talk about and develop new ideas and practices.
New to us, anyways….
Eli’s big idea:
CaTDASh
Care: why do I care about this?
Think: what’s my starting point? What evidence will I collect to show progress? What will it look like when I reach the goal?
Design: what steps, milestones, and obstacles do I need to reach?
Act: what am I doing today?
Share: who am I sharing this with?
CaTDASh curricular projects.
Eli’s action research question:
can a design thinking tool help students set and meet academic, curricular, and personal goals?
How does CaTDASh work for students?
Data streams:
Reflective writing:
I used CaTDASh to set all three of my goals on my website, as well as my sustainability project. CaTDASh is really helpful for both projects and goals because it makes you think a lot more when you set the goal or start the project, and it also helps you with time management because of the act part of CaTDASh, which makes you show your progress.
Looking back on my goals the goal I have made the most progress on is my goal to get into MIT, probably because a lot of the extracurricular stuff that I do can go towards that goal. The goal I have made the least progress on is my goal to make a go-kart probably because I am not that determined to do this goal. In the new year when we get to change/revise our goals I will change my goal to build a go-kart to another goal.
When we are asked to create another goal I will probably create a goal to learn how to make a game like Zork in Javascript because I am interested in taking the next step into the coding world. I also think that learning javascript would be a useful skill in general to have, and it would also mean that I would be able to run the minecraft server when Guin has graduated to the High School.
Surveys:
It really helps me think about why I pick certain things and why I think it's important.
Because it helps me move through projects and tasks
It makes it so I can personalize all my goals and independent projects.
Reflective video:
Link to flipgrid reflection:
“What is it like to use CaTDASh?”
Reflective emails:
Dear parental life form,
Let me tell you about my sustainability TAP project...some parts of CaTDASh were especially challenging for me. For example, in the Act part, when I was doing my research on tropical deforestation I had a hard time keeping a daily work log on my PLP...In general I struggle with organization and steps, so CaTDASh makes projects easier in general, because it sets stages for things to happen.
Dan’s big idea: Negotiated Units
Increasing student voice and choice through:
Negotiated inquiry (QFT)
Negotiated Rubrics
Negotiated Rubrics
Does a negotiated curriculum increase engagement and understanding?
Can middle schoolers handle this much freedom?
Data streams:
Negotiated inquiry
I really liked the project and the way you had us do it. You gave us plenty of freedom which is what we asked for. We had plenty of time to do the project which was great. It was nice to come into the afternoon class and know what we were going to do without having to have to tell us everything. There weren't to many rules so we could let our creative ideas go. Overall there really isn't much I would do to change the project.
End game
How has our thinking changed?
Extending the impact...
Eli
Dan