Design in Education Conference 2011

Hey there,

Just deivered a workshop as part of the Design in Education conference Kiran and the Riverside Team have organised.

Design in Education offers an opportunity for both students, practitioners and educators to make use of design systems to explore making education more meaningful and effective. There is a four stage process which goes like this:

1. Feel

empathise with the users - talk to parents, listen to students, try to get into the shoes of everyone concerned and find out what their needs are.

2. Imagine

How would we like this to be? how could we make it work better to get more needs met? This could be about classroom design, curriculum design or lesson planning.

3. Do, Do, Do

Prototype, experiment, try things out, ask what if, have a go, reflect and try again

4. Share

Share your findings, reflections, achievements with others.

An example:

How can we make lessons more interesting?
1.
Ask teachers where they feel students are disengaged and why.
Ask students why lessons work or don't work
Ask policy makers and examiners why they design education the way they do.

2. Explore how you could innovate to build a more interesting format.
What are others doing?
What would be fun to try?
What have you seen work elsewhere?
What is really out of the box?

3. Do, Do Do

devise some plans and try them out.
reflect on how they go and get feedback and try again

4. Share

Ask others to observe, give feedback and try out what you have created.

Kiran will be part of our conference programme, sharing her insight on person centered education - please visit www.thelifeproject.co.uk/conferences for more info.