Today, Yu-seung and I met with Paula Goodman, Director of the K-12 programs at the Public Programs office at South Campus. Paula gave us insight about the Design Based Learning Program for K-12 Teachers and provided us with a lot of guidance and inspiration for our own workshop. She provided us focus, gave us a few examples of workshop activities, but most of all, encouraged us to really look into ourselves and our own experiences to help shape the content for our workshop.
There are several things I feel I learned from our one-hour talk:
1. The experience begins at the beginning.
2. Consider the takeaway experience – what happens after the workshop?
3. Give people space to conceptualize their own thoughts, using their own experiences.
4. Provide moments of self-reflection, deliberate or not.
5. KNOW what problem you want to solve or what question you want to pose – FOCUS!!!
6. Use what you know to connect with your audience – help unravel the repression people have placed on their creativity.
7. Balance what you show versus what you tell. Leave things open for interpretation.
Thank you Paula!
Besides meeting with Ms. Goodman (which was really like a breath of fresh air), we also read more on participatory design and watched TED talks on creativity and design education:
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with something original.”
Design is in the Details
Paul Bennett
This week, Yu-Seung and I narrowed down our main workshop question as well as came up with a plan of action for the next month. Our goal by week 10 is conduct a test run of our workshop (details to come):
THE BIG QUESTION:
How can a workshop show designers/ design educators how their affordances can help solve social issues?
OUR SCHEDULE:
wk7: workshop samples/ research
wk8: no class – work on proposal to submit to design conference
wk9: present finalized proposal, present refined workshop models
wk10: test run workshop
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