Design Thinking for Educators
Reinvigorating education by thinking about it through the principles of design. There are great insights here — from reconfiguring classrooms to thinking about instruction as designed, prototyped, and so forth. I find the whole thing compelling — and much of it familiar, having seen what talented friends do with instruction in college classrooms. I wonder how I can be more mindful of my own teaching and curriculum as designed.
I’m putting it on file for next fall when I hit the classroom again with a Mark Twain seminar for first year students, an upper-division late 19th century American Lit class, and a graduate class in the same. Funny, now that I am on a research sabbatical, I find myself thinking so much about pedagogy and course design and running across such wonderful resources.