Blended learning
Is defined as rethinking established routines and sequencing of student work and teaching to enhance understanding and relies heavily on digital resources. (Paniagua, Istance 2018). Engaging in the design thinking process, students are given the provocation or assignment that they need to solve. By students constructing their own knowledge, they see themselves as the expert with the teacher and classmates to help scaffold their understanding. With our design thinking tool, it combines the online learning tool for planning and reflection along with traditional classroom methods of discussion and dissection of what is design thinking. This is changing the way both teachers and students approach learning. Creating confident, risk taking learners that are engaged with their learning. |
Computational Thinking
Paniagua, Istance (2018) explains that the computational thinking approach develops problem-solving by approaching a problem as a computer would and then use technology to resolve them. Our tool helps students break down the design process into steps and document it along the way. Clear documentation makes the thought process visible so that it can be revisited and evaluated with future knowledge to make it better. Within this reflection and break down students can clearly see what failed, and through fixing it and trying again students are using their critical thinking skills to find solutions and realize through the mistakes is where they will learn the most. |