NExT + CAPS: Designed To Learn

Thank you for joining the NExT+CAPS Summer Bash 2020! I’m delighted to be sharing some tips and tricks from my book Designed To Learn: Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion To The Classroom.

• In this session you’ll experience the paper to plan protocol I use to illustrate and activate the design thinking process.

• My hope is that you leave this session feeling confident in your ability to fuel more empowered learners and more purposeful learning with some simple tools to begin co-creating a more sustainable future of learning alongside your students this year!

Design Thinking Hackathon with the "Paper To Plan" Protocol

In this fast-paced 1-hour professional development we use the author’s proprietary “Paper to Plan” protocol as we “Prepare to Pivot” in any learning space.

• Educators explore the foundational concepts of design thinking that seamlessly translate to digital spaces and foster essential skills of communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking in your students.

• An extension to essential teacher guided instruction, students learn to co-create meaningful solutions to today’s most pressing issues by collaborating with their peers, honing their communication skills, flexing their latent creativity, and unleashing their critical thinking.

• Through this unique and proprietary protocol useful for both educators and their students, learners become more self-regulated, metacognitively aware, and see themselves as meaning makers in the process of learning as their epistemic beliefs evolve.

Design Thinking: Problem Of Practice To Opportunity To Innovate

Grounded in my book Designed To Learn: Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion To The Classroom, you’ll learn to implement the process of design thinking across the curriculum and throughout the district,

• Fuel more empowered learners and more purposeful learning,

• Identify, research, and ideate solutions to solve real-world problems with purpose and passion, and

• Collaborate to design solutions for a sustainable future (aligned to: Designed for Good: Design Thinking Solutions for a Sustainable Future and the 17 UN SDGs)

Paper To Plan: Co-Creating Impactful And Human-Centered Experiential Learning Through Games

Active inquiry into the games we loved as kids and the games our kids love today,

• See games as an opportunity for growth, learning, and enhanced discovery,

• Learn how the mechanics of game play align to the mechanics of learning,

• Create, test, and emerge with a working prototype of a completely unique game that will inspire, engage, and delight your learners!

From 0-60: Using Design Thinking To Create An MVP

Unpack the unique value proposition your work brings to the world and co-create with stakeholders to design and develop a minimally viable product that serves your community and your world in this daylong hackathon where you:

• Learn how to transform pain points into opportunities to innovate,

• Leverage the many voices in your space to uncover a single unifying vision for growth, and

• Emerge with a clear vision of your what it takes to take your concept to creation by defining the process, timing, and accountability to achieve your goals.