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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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The pages in this section of DITC can help you deepen
your understanding of the process. Explore different themes
related to designing by clicking on titles (below) or
the links in the purple navigator bar (above):
- What
Is Design?
Introduces models that describe what designing involves,
strategies used, approaches typically employed by
novice designers, and differences between inquiry
and design.
- Design
Pedagogy
Introduces design briefs, product histories, product
comparisons, scavenger hunts, fair test experiments,
and other ways of supporting students learning with
design tasks.
- Teaching
Strategies
Describes ways teachers can initiate design tasks,
support students' group work, help with time management,
and aid students in making data-supported design decisions.
- Assessment
& Standards
Learn about connections between students and national
and various state standards, and ways to do formative
and authentic assessment.
- Teaching Controversies
Design can generate controversies for students, teachers
and researchers. Hear about research on gender and
design and other topics.
- Design
Cases Everyone
designs; not everyone knows it. See cases of everyday
home design activities as shown by classroom teachers
and curriculum developers.
- Learning/Cognitive
Sciences
Learn about the relevant research from the Learning
and Cognitive Sciences that support the use of design
activities and its various pedagogies.
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