The Design Thinking Model gives students an opportunity to
develop solutions to real world problems and make improvements to the tools
that they have created. It allows students to see the practicality of an
object while bettering another students' educational experience.
The Model is broken into 5 components:
Empathy - Learning about the
audience for whom you are designing.
Define - Redefining and
focusing your question based on your insights from the empathy stage.
Ideate - Brainstorming and
coming up with creative solutions.
Prototype - Building a
representation of one or more of your ideas to show others.
Test - Returning to your original
user group, sharing and testing your idea for feedback.
Now that I am comfortable with SketchUp, I would like to implement
Nichol's Model into my teachings, perhaps in PAA9. I feel that
scaffolding simple challenges such as the tops or the lego challenge are great
stepping stones to channel student creativity. This would eventually
lead to innovative designs that would benefit others in a real world setting.
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