design thinking unit elementary video
Getting started in MYP Design? Need a few short and helpful design videos to support or direct your students' thinking? Maybe you're beginning a project-based STEAM lesson and need to prime your students into a design thinking mode.
Consider the following five short design videos for your students. I have shown them multiple times to start my MYP Design classes. Each time my students demonstrated solid interest and engagement with the content.
These videos offer multiple perspectives on design thinking and range from about three to four minutes long. They are ordered from the shortest in length to the longest. Enjoy!
Focused and Diffused Thinking: The Ping Pong Technique
Author: Sprouts
Length: 2:52
Date: May 24, 2015
Sprouts makes animated videos about education, learning, science, and creative and critical thinking.
This video uses sketchnoting techniques to illustrate the two types of thinking (focused and relaxed) to solve problems. One astute YouTube commentator remarked that basically, we need to take breaks from what we are doing–you know, our work. I like seeing this common-sense advice from another perspective. It gets me thinking…
Some possible MYP Design questions: How can the MYP Design Cycle promote focused and diffused thinking to solve problems? Should it? In which criteria or strands would a focused or relaxed approach best apply?
User Experience Tutorial: Fitts's Law Logical Physical Design of Items
Author: LinkedIn Learning
Length: 3:28
Date: December 20, 2012
This resource is less about design thinking and more about design layout. When I taught Year 1 (grade six) MYP Design, all of our units focused on perfecting a product for a specific audience. Two units targeted physical products and two were dedicated to digital designs. Even though this video focuses on app-based designs, Fitt's Law has applications in terms of the optimal layout of the elements of any product.
What are other examples of Fitt's Law in terms of the position and size of a product's elements? Use the examples in the video for help such as the pedals in an automobile or an on-off switch for heavy machinery.
Challenge your students with this: How can the color, texture, and/or shape of elements that make up a digital or physical product be analyzed under Fitt's Law? Does the math of the law still apply or would you be working with the spirit of the law?
Why Design Matters
Author: The School of Life
Length: 3:42
Date: June 22, 2015
The School of Life is a global organization based in London. Their general goal is to help people lead more fulfilling lives. They go about this in their videos by exploring the deep questions that involve human emotion and our psychological lives.
This video is made up of cleverly animated photos narrated by a compelling voice. The speaker argues that design matters because it affects how we as people feel and relate to each other. What I have remarked to my students is that designers tend to have a lot of strong opinions and this video follows suit!
What about the narrator's assertion that "good design helps us be the best versions of ourselves"? Do you agree with the author? Did the Catholics design better churches than the Protestants in terms of all of the elements of design?
The Design Thinking Process
Author: Sprouts
Length: 3:56
Date: October 23, 2017
Sketnoting is used once more to describe a five-step process to solve a problem for an identified audience. Also, there is mention of Stanford's d.school which offers a free virtual crash course to guide participants through a full human-centered design thinking cycle. There are multiple educational resources in many languages with the course!
How is the five-step design thinking process in the video most similar to or most different from the MYP Design Cycle (which has four steps/criteria)?
Learning Graphic Facilitation – 7 Elements by Bigger Picture
Author: Bigger Picture Video
Length: 4:26
Date: April 5, 2013
Bigger Picture is a strategy, learning, and design agency based in Denmark. They use an approach called System Visualization to process complexity to be more manageable.
I think I've shown this short video the most to my students. I'm still intrigued and motivated to sketch better for my students to communicate ideas and concepts. Sketchnoting is used to show how simple sketches, symbols, and text can create powerful visuals.
The vibe seems to be how to communicate big with a little, and these techniques can apply students as they are engaged in design thinking. The minimal use of color I find especially helpful with 11- and 12-year olds who can tend to overcolor sketches.
Some questions to use with your students may be: What do the different arrows represent in Element 3, Process? What do the different arrows represent in Element 4, Speech? Why is less actually more for visual presentations? Empathy question: In Element 7, what are the five people feeling (bottom right, at about 3:05 in the video)?
Understanding Design Thinking
Consider using the questions I wrote for each video, have students develop their own, or ask students to simply reflect on these resources. Some summary questions could be: How are you already using these thinking techniques to solve problems in your life? Which academic subject areas benefit most from design thinking? What did you learn in the videos to help your problem-solving abilities?
For a 20-minute task, select maybe one to two videos to review. Students could generate one reflective response or answer one to two questions.
If you are in a digital learning and teaching context, consider using a Google Form to capture your student's written work. A collection of student text responses allows you quick access to their work in one place for evaluation.
You can also create a tag cloud to summarize the responses with a free online service like WordClouds.com. Share the tag cloud for additional discussion with your students.
design thinking unit elementary video
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