Design Thinking for Educators

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simplicity

meaning

balance

“We have learned more about how the mind works in the last twenty-five years than we did in the last twenty-five hundred.”

- Daniel T. Willingham

How to Create Un-Engaging Content Slides

• Ensure that there is lots of text (small text) crammed into each slide.

• The more stuff you can fit on each slide, the better• Read every word on every slide completely• If they don’t get it when you’re done reading it, too bad• Move on to the next slide as soon as possible; after all, you’ve

got a lot of content to cover!• Throw all the information you can at them; something is

bound to stick and you simply don’t have the time to slow down

• Follow slide design templates and presentation rules: they were created for a reason

Information OverloadInformation Overload

We can read about

words/minute

We can listen to

words/minute

We can write about

words/minute

We can copy about

words/minute

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How to Create Un-Engaging Content Slides

• Ensure that there is lots of text (small text) crammed into each slide.

• The more stuff you can fit on each slide, the better• Read every word on every slide completely• If they don’t get it when you’re done reading it, too bad• Move on to the next slide as soon as possible; after all, you’ve

got a lot of content to cover!• Throw all the information you can at them; something is

bound to stick and you simply don’t have the time to slow down

• Follow slide design templates and presentation rules: they were created for a reason

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balance

“Simple and simplistic are as different as complex and complicated.”

-Emmanuel Gobbilot

Frederick Douglass

• Born around 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland• Original Name: Frederick Augustus Bailey• Attempted to escape slavery numerous times• Often traded food for lessons in reading and writing.• Powerfully eloquent writer and speaker.• Become one of the most outspoken critics of slavery of his time.• Died on February 20, 1895• Delivered speech “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?”• Served as advisor to President Lincoln• Legacy has lived on through the centuries

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I prefer to be true to I prefer to be true to myself, even at the myself, even at the hazard of incurring hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, the ridicule of others, rather than to be rather than to be false, and to incur false, and to incur my own abhorrence. my own abhorrence.

- Frederick Douglass- Frederick Douglass

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Use color wisel

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Can You Read This Slide?

• If not, others may share the same problem• Why subject your students to things you would

not subject yourself to?• Be wary of outrageous color schemes• Remember these points:– Noise vs. Signal– Contrast is King– Design vs. Decoration– Simple vs. Simplistic

This doesn’t help much either

Perhaps white would be better?

Ah, that’s better.

In the world of colorIn the world of color……

……contrastcontrast is king. is king.

decorationdecoration designdesign

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Whypresent?

To make meaning

Whyteach?

To make meaning

meaning

tell more

stories

The unit of intelligibility of most of our brains is the story.

- Dr. Stuart Brown

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Look for this!

Dr. Bonnie BasslerPrinceton University

Dr. Hans RoslingKarolinka Institute

Dr. Hans RoslingDr. Hans Rosling

PicturePictureSuperioritySuperiorityEffectEffect

”“Even though cognitive development,

practice and scaffolding support increasingly more sophisticated skills as students gain experience and maturity, there is no guarantee that they will recognize and effectively coordinate the representations that are afforded by the worlds of school and the rest of life.

(Schwartz & Fischer 2004)

”“When learners begin the problem-solving process in a new situation, they first use primitive skills, not their most sophisticated ones.

(Schwartz & Fischer 2004)

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Conflict

Central “problem” that must be resolved in a piece of literature

Character vs. selfCharacter vs. Character (Protagonist /

Antagonist)Character vs. SocietyCharacter vs. NatureCharacter vs. Supernatural (Fate)Character vs. machine / technology

(Contemporary Addition)

Quick-Write

Ask a question

Think-Jot-Pair-

Share

Poll the class

Turn and Talk

This is not the teacher.

You are the teacher!

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Designer

designer

“Everyone designs who devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”

- Herbert Simon

imitationimitationWe learn throughWe learn through

”“The instinct of The instinct of

imitation is imitation is implanted in man implanted in man from childhood…he from childhood…he is the most imitative is the most imitative of living creatures, of living creatures, and through and through imitation learns his imitation learns his earliest lessons.earliest lessons.

- Aristotle- Aristotle

Dr. Bonnie BasslerPrinceton University

Dr. Hans RoslingKarolinka Institute

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”“Truth exists outside all molds.

- Bruce Lee

Your turn.

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