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Thinking Canvas
Thinking and learning are invisible processes that happen inside of a learner’s head. We can elicit this thinking and help to make it visible by designing proxies for learning; artefacts that are designed to show understanding to another person.
A Thinking Canvas is just that. A structured space with enough blank areas to invite learners to make their learning visible. The following canvas is specifically designed to capture student learning through a design thinking project. A quick overview is given in the video below.
Thinking Canvas
Google Slides are so much more than presentation software. In this deck, each slide is a Thinking Canvas with a specific purpose. I suggest that you utilise the power of Slides combined with Google Classroom to make a whole group’s learning visible and collaborative.
We are going to use Google Classroom to give each student their own copy,
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Digital Canvas // (ADD YOUR NAME HERE)
2. Complete the actors map to show the people involved in your challenge and how they interact
3. Complete your first reflection, thinking about your own learning What went well?
Even better if?
6. Complete your ideation activity to generate as many solutions as possible around your challenge
8. Complete your impact/effort matrix to try and find your best idea
9. Complete your crazy 8s prototyping activity to play around with your idea
10. Complete your lo-fi prototype and share it with other people to get some feedback
11. Complete your self reflection on each of the growth ladders / questions / possibilities / reasoning / metacognition
4. Complete your persona cards to better understand your actors and users
7. Complete your second reflection, thinking about your own learning two stars and a wish!
5. Complete your ‘How might we…?’ question to define your challenge more precisely
To do | Doing | Needs Feedback | Acting on Feedback | Ready to Submit |
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Project - Kanban Board
What is your problem? // Challenge statement
This space is for you to explain your problem area. Write in as much detail as you can and add sketches (photos of hand drawings, Google Keep sketches etc). Anyone should be able to look at this slide and understand what the problem is and why it is an important problem.
To design great solutions, we need to understand our users #empathy
Write your challenge here...
This is an actors map. Move each character (feel free to add your own) to represent someone involved in your challenge. Add hexagons around them to give details about how they relate to your challenge. Use arrows to show connections and add coloured post-it notes for any insights or things that surprise you. Delete this note when you are ready.
First reflection // think about how you have worked so far...
What went well? (what kind of learning behaviours did you demonstrate that were useful?)
Even better if… (what could you work on to be even more effective in your learning?)
What is your problem? Part 2 // Refine your challenge
Now you have had a go at developing your actors map, what have you learned?
The most important thing I learned about my challenge…(type answer or record a video and insert)
One surprising insight I found was …(type answer or record a video and insert)
One assumption I had made which may not be true...(type answer or record a video and insert)
One hunch that I still have which is yet to be proven...(type answer or record a video and insert)
Understanding your challenge // persona cards
Now you have started to understand the challenge space and some of the people involved, you can create persona cards to help you keep those people in mind when designing your solutions.
Name
3 adjectives to describe person
Croc Top
Confident, cool, arrogant
Goal: What do they want?
Goal: To create affordable, local produce
Challenge: What is getting in the way?
Challenge: Croc Top does not have access to a large area of land.
Satisfaction: What would be a great outcome?
Satisfaction: Being able to use the lat roof of his building to produce food
Understanding your challenge // make your own persona cards
Now create some person cards for people who may be involved in your challenge. Remember, they may be based on real people, but make up a name for them. (If you need to make more, then you can duplicate this slide.
Name
3 adjectives to describe person
Goal: What do they want?
Challenge: What is getting in the way?
Satisfaction: What would be a great outcome?
Name
3 adjectives to describe person
Goal: What do they want?
Challenge: What is getting in the way?
Satisfaction: What would be a great outcome?
Defining your challenge // how might we?
You now need to create a “How might we…?” question which will drive your ideation. Your question should be “Goldilocks”; not so vast in scale that you can’t think of an idea and not so narrow that you are presenting a solution rather than a question. A good HMW question should inspire you to come up with several different solutions. Use the space below to capture a draft question, seek feedback and refine.
How might we (do something / reimagine, design, create) for someone (be specific) in order to achieve something (best case scenario)?
Ideation
Using your How might we question as a stimulus, add your ideas on to these post-it notes. Add as many as you can, don’t worry about how crazy they might seem!
Second reflection
Two stars (2 things that you did really well in your learning)
And a wish (1 thing you want to work on)
Ideation
Copy your ideation post-it notes here and organise using the impact/effort matrix to see which would be the most impactful solutions.
Low effort
High Impact
Low impact
High effort
Prototyping
Crazy 8s // sketch your first prototype of your solution in the top left box. Then sketch a
variation in every other box; make it bigger, online, smaller, combine your ideas, remove elements of your idea. Just play with the prototype and see if something interesting comes out.
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Prototyping
Lo-fi prototype // before you spend lots of energy building your finished prototype, just sketch and label your prototype here. You are not looking to make a perfect version, you are just aiming to communicate your idea and get some kind, specific and helpful feedback.
I don’t yet understand that there are different types of questions
I know how to form a question, but cannot yet classify it
I consider what I am trying to achieve and then choose the appropriate question type from my toolkit
I work hard to include and get the maximum value out of each team member
I craft my questions carefully and consider the best way to communicate them
I can evaluate other people’s use of questions
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Questions
I can choose and use different questioning techniques to focus or expand my thinking.
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Write a list of common questions you might use in a day. What do they all have in common?
When asking a question, stop to consider what you are trying to achieve and see if there is a better question type to use
I can identify different question types (for example open and closed questions, Googleable and unGoogelable questions, rhetorical questions etc)
Try and group your list of questions by function; what are they trying to do? Find out facts? Make you think hard about a subject?
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Questions
Possibilities
I am able to generate ideas, possibilities and actions based on existing and new ideas
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I am not yet able to create my own ideas, possibilities or actions
I can create one idea, possibility or action
I can generate a number of different ideas, possibilities or actions.
I reflect on my ideas and draw upon the influence of others in order to reimagine possibilities
I use my reimagined possibilities to create an original work
I seek to apply my creative thinking to different contexts
Carry out a google search to find different possibilities. Identify one idea that you could adapt.
Using a mindmap, try to generate 100 ideas in 10 minutes.
At the end of the 10 minutes, put a star next to your 5 favourite ideas.
Create a table for your 5 favourite ideas, and give each a score out of 10 for feasibility, creativity and relevance.
Share your ideas with three other people, and ask them to give you their feedback and advice.
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Reasoning
I can analyse, evaluate and reflect to form an opinion supported by evidence
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Reasoning
I cannot yet form an opinion on a subject
I can give my opinion on a subject, but don’t support it with evidence.
I can support my opinion on a subject after having analysed some evidence
I can analyse, evaluate and reflect on multiple sources of evidence to give a reasoned opinion
I employ critical thinking when faced with any subject that requires an opinion.
I seek out relevant examples from other issues to test my opinion
I can explain multiple, conflicting perspectives on the same issue
Write out the question and answer it in the format “ I agree/disagree because…”
Read the relevant pages in the text book/carry out your own research. Summarise some of the relevant pieces of evidence.
For each pieces of evidence, evaluate how strong the evidence is and how trustworthy the source is. Order the evidence in terms of its usefulness, and use this to form your argument.
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Complete the sentence: “it is important to think about my learning because…”
Metacognition
I reflect on my own learning strategies so that I can better understand what helps me to learn
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I do not yet think about my own learning
I understand that it is important to think about my own learning
I can list different learning strategies and identify when I am using them
I consider how well different learning strategies support my learning and select the most effective strategy
I reflect on how I am learning and how well I am learning as a default position
I am able to identify effective learning strategies from one context and transfer it to another
List as many different learning strategies as you can. Examples include: creating mind maps, quizlet cards, summary posters etc.
For each strategy, state what its benefits are and when it used.
Create a table of the different strategies. For each strategy, state what its benefits are and when it used.
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Badges
Use this slide to collect the badges your teacher awards or your classmate nominates you for
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Example Badges
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