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Students' Design Talk
Teaching rarely provides you the luxury of time to reflect on students'
explanations, meaning-making or reflections about their
work. These two movies show a tech ed and science student
talking about their process of designing. Listen to the
way each makes sense and meaning of their designing when
they work given a chance to reflect on their work.
MOVIE 1 shows an interview of a hard-working female tech
ed student from Brooklyn, NY. You will hear what she finds
exciting and difficult about designing, how in her own
words she describes her design process, and her regrets
about a typical name design strategy: getting stuck and
never changing her first her parachute design idea.
In MOVIE 2, a science student from Connecticut describes
her design process and that of her teammates.
Questions to Consider:
1. What do these students seem to enjoy most/least about
designing?
2. What design-related capabilities do they seem to show
in abundance?
3. What aspects of "informed designing" do they seem to do well/poorly?
4. What future objectives would you set for and pursue
with these students?
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