{"id":1107,"date":"2012-08-07T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:09:38","slug":"design-thinking-and-curriculum-one-size-does-not-fit-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1107","title":{"rendered":"Design thinking and curriculum: One size does not fit all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big believer in differentiated learning. Our students come in too many shapes and sizes to think that they can all find success on one learning path.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I am not a fan of rigid pacing or textbooks, both of which, I think, take a one-size-fits-all approach.<\/p>\n<p>This month I am taking an IDEO course called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dtfored.ning.com\/\">Design Thinking for Educators<\/a>.&#8221; The basic idea of design thinking is to address ill-defined, messy problems through a process of defining needs, researching them further, brainstorming (ideation), prototyping, implementation, and iteration.<\/p>\n<p>Key to design thinking are empathy, creativity, collaboration, experimentation, and iteration. It&#8217;s thinking out of the box for real-life, messy problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/design_thinking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1108\" title=\"design_thinking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/design_thinking.png\" alt=\"design_thinking\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/design_thinking.png 500w, https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/design_thinking-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/dschool.stanford.edu\/groups\/k12\/wiki\/17cff\/Design_Process_Steps.html\">Stanford K-12 Lab<\/a>, CC BY SA<\/p>\n<p>Human learning is certainly a messy problem that calls for empathy and creativity, so it seems to me that this might be a useful way to look at curriculum or, more broadly, learning experiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the challenge. Gather information. Talk to the student, parents, teachers, and others to understand the unique needs. Observe. Empathize. Reflect.*<\/li>\n<li>Interpret the observations made to begin to define the needs of the learner.*<\/li>\n<li>Ideate. Brainstorm. Collaborate. Come up with as many possible ways address the needs as possible.*<\/li>\n<li>Take the ideas and experiment with them through rapid prototyping.*<\/li>\n<li>Try something out. Test the prototype. Gather data about what&#8217;s working. (Yeah, yeah, I know&#8230;)*<\/li>\n<li>Iterate and evolve over time. Human learning is messy. Things change, and the learning process needs to respond to these changes.*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Throughout this process, get feedback and collaborate with others.<\/p>\n<p>So this sounds like individualized education plans or personalized learning with a new design twist. This idea is not particularly new<strong>, <\/strong>but <strong>what might be different now is the advent of new technologies coupled with open educational resources as tools for achieving this vision<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having a personalized learning plan for each learner and the tools to realize it cost-effectively. How could we ever go back to pacing and textbooks after that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big believer in differentiated learning. Our students come in too many shapes and sizes to think that they can all find success on one learning path. 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