Tag Archives: Design
Technological Tuesdays: The design process
As I noted yesterday, I’m trying out theme days on my blog. My hope is to encourage more frequency and variation in my reflection. In sticking with my alliteration, I’m going to try to tackle technological reflections on Tuesdays. Today, … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of technology, Technological Tuesdays
Tagged Design, design process, engineering
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Teaching is Design: Cultural Constraints
I’ve written a few posts relating teaching and design (see here, here, here, and here). If teaching is designing, then ideas about design might provide interesting insight into teaching. Last time I wrote about material constraints, but culture and society … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of Learning, Nature of technology, teacher education
Tagged constraints, culture, Design, designthinking, Learning
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Teaching is Design: Material Constraints
Before beginning their official designs, engineers and designers have to further understand the context in which they are designing. Part of this context are the material constraints. That is, how do the properties and cost of available materials create barriers or inherent … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Education Reform
Tagged constraints, Design, instructional materials, nature of technology, teaching
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Teaching is Design: End User
Once we know the outcomes of our design, we need to consider for whom we design? The best designed products clearly considered the end user in the design process. When a product is designed for the end user, the user … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Learning, Nature of Learning
Tagged Design, education, Learning, learning theory, students, teaching
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Teaching is Designing
Teaching is designing. If we take John Spencer’s design cycle as a starting point, consider how teachers demonstrate awareness, inquiry, research, ideation, planning, prototyping, testing and revising, and launching/marketing. For example, when a teacher is working on creating a new problem-based … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Nature of technology, teacher education, Technology Education
Tagged Design, engineering, teaching
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Teaching as Dynamic 