1. Mindy Ahrens & Judy Caraang
Deeper Learning
Through Design Thinking
Mindy Ahrens & Judy Caraang
Design39Campus
Poway Unified School District
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2. Deeper Learning Competencies The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Master Core Content
Think Critically and Solve Complex Problems
Work Collaboratively
Communicate Effectively
Learn How to Learn
Develop Academic Mindsets
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

3. Design Thinking Process
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4. Focus and Flare

5. Questions to ponder…
What do you notice about your own creativity and creative confidence (risk taking)?
What do you notice about collaboration and communication within your group?
What core content are you learning or practicing?

6. Community Building: Line up (5-10 min) Safe environment
allow for risk taking
community building- line up according to furthest moved. (raises the energy level, gets people standing/mixing, find commonalities)
Mix of people adds to the level of creativity because it brings in different viewpoints and backgrounds.

7. Redesign the
Moving Experience

8. Empathy: To truly understand the person you are designing for
Find latent needs, pain points, missed opportunities
Your job: gather data, ask questions, listen to stories

9. Empathy Classroom Connection:
Bring in real people who have immigrated to America
Use primary sources as the “user”
Connect current immigration issues to early immigration

10. Define:
To synthesize the empathy findings into one user and his or her specific need.
Your job: To create a needs statement for your specific user

11. _____ needs a way to _____ because ____ .
Needs Statement:
_____ needs a way to _____ because ____ .
what is the need?
why?
who?

12. Define Classroom Connection:
Redesign the Ellis Island experience
Redesign the pioneer experience
Redesign the current American immigration experience

13. Ideate:
To generate as many ideas as possible to potentially solve the user’s need
“Yes, and…”
Your job: To brainstorm as many ideas as you can to solve your user’s need.

14. Prototype To build rapid, physical representations of an idea
To bring an idea out of the brain in order to show it to others
Your job: Choose one of your solutions to prototype.

15. Test & Revise To allow the user to interact with prototypes
To refine solutions
“I like... I wish...”
Your job: Go back to your user and test your prototype. Revise based on feedback.

16. Sharing Time!

17. Questions to ponder…
What do you notice about your own creativity and creative confidence (risk taking)?
What do you notice about collaboration and communication within your group?
What core content are you learning or practicing?

18. Put it into action: Brainstorm possible design challenges Levers:
grade level
subject(s)
school community
local community
world
2. Gallery Walk

19. Resources