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Learn About Design
Want a "Quick Peek" into what design is all about? The Interactive
Design Model below can give you a fast tutorial on strategies
that designers typically use. Click on the strategy you
want to find out more about by reading a short description
or seeing a movie.
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This section of DITC can help you deepen your understanding
of the design process. Explore different aspects of learning
and teaching with design tasks by clicking on titles (below)
or links in the purple navigator bar (above):
- What
Is Design?
Introduces 7 different models that attempt describe
design approaches and strategies.
- Design
Pedagogy
Presents approaches like design briefs, product histories
and comparisons, scavenger hunts, fair test experiments,
and other ways to support students learning when they
are designing.
- Teaching
Strategies
Describes ways teachers can initiate design tasks,
support students' group work, help with time management,
and aid students in making informed design decisions.
- Design
Cases Everyone
designs; not everyone knows it. See cases of everyday
designing and that are done by classroom teachers,
curriculum developers and people without special training
in design.
- Assessment
Learn ways to do formative and authentic assessment.,
and use transfer tasks.
- Standards
Learn about national and selected state standard related
to design and technology investigations.
- Teaching
Controversies
Design generates controversies for students, teachers
and researchers. Hear research on gender and design,
what makes for good design challenges, and student
autonomy versus teacher control.
- Learning/Cognitive
Sciences
Watch video capsules of the relevant research from
the Learning and Cognitive Sciences that support the
use of design activities and its various pedagogies.
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