Thinking Routines and Maker Capacities: How do the Agency by
Design thinking routines promote looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity with my learners?
Teacher Fellow Ed Crandall, the Science, Making and Robotics Teacher from Lighthouse Community Charter School, spent his time in the fellowship focused on the Agency by
Design thinking routines by consistently incorporating them into his classes.
After each workshop concluded, all participants committed to using an Agency by
Design thinking routine or simply being mindful of the core capacities while facilitating instruction.
Images from Teacher Fellow Amy Dobras» workshop, «Agency by Design 101: Parts, Purposes, & Complexities,» in which participants collaboratively took apart an object through the usage of a core Agency by
Design thinking routine.
Participants used an Agency by
Design thinking routine to become familiar with Ms. Hammond's Ready for Rigor tool.
Not exact matches
Think of our award - winning GLOW Inner Beauty Powder as your internal skin moisturiser, and our Inner Beauty Boosts as your internal skin serums,
designed to target specific skin concerns and supercharge your inner beauty
routine.
Design thinking methodology could be the perfect way to tackle specific classroom issues such as student memory lapses in history class, boredom with
routine exercises in mathematics, or apathy in physical education.
In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including
thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by
Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.
Thinking routines are simple structures,
designed to be practical, easy to remember, and easily transferrable across subjects or disciplines.
The text explores the key characteristics of the educational environments and instructional
designs under which maker - centered learning thrives, and describes unique
thinking routines that foster the primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity.
Collectively we engaged in dialogue about the Agency by
Design framework through a visible
thinking routine called Chalk Talk.
As part of Agency by
Design's work, the research team began to wonder: What
thinking routines could we borrow and expand on from other Project Zero initiatives, and what
thinking routines could we develop ourselves, that would cultivate the three primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity?
These are all questions that Agency by
Design Oakland fellows tackled in the
Thinking Routines and Capacities inquiry group, which I had the opportunity to facilitate and coach over the past few months.
Founded on the Agency by
Design framework for maker - centered learning, Thinking and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom introduces participants to AbD's core concepts of maker empowerment and sensitivity to design, as well as the project's three core maker capacities and the thinking routines that have been designed to support
Design framework for maker - centered learning,
Thinking and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom introduces participants to AbD's core concepts of maker empowerment and sensitivity to design, as well as the project's three core maker capacities and the thinking routines that have been designed to suppo
Thinking and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom introduces participants to AbD's core concepts of maker empowerment and sensitivity to
design, as well as the project's three core maker capacities and the thinking routines that have been designed to support
design, as well as the project's three core maker capacities and the
thinking routines that have been designed to suppo
thinking routines that have been
designed to support them.
I discussed the work done by Agency by
Design and how «
thinking routines» that makers tend to have naturally are being developed in curriculum and are tool, skill, and hopefully budget — independent.
I have come to believe through my exposure to Agency by
Design that the purpose of making in education is to provide opportunities for students to empower themselves through developing productive «
thinking routines.»
5th grade: Product
Design based on the Agency by
Design Teaching and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom
Thinking Routines and Disposition Development
To explore these ideas, AbD engaged in a program of action research with a partner group of practitioners in Oakland to develop a theoretical framework, a set of
thinking routines, and pictures of practice to support educators in helping students
think critically about the
design of objects and systems.
From developing new ways to redirect authority in the classroom — to implementing
thinking routines across subject areas — to exploring ways to develop students» ability to explore the complexity of the world around them — fellows will gain an understanding of how to
design for the development of agency.
Training Tips I
designed the Joe Pup game in 1989 at the request of the owner of Blue Springs Dog Training Center in Colorado to help prepare nervous handlers for competition by teaching them to
think quickly under pressure while performing extremely complicated and varied
routines.
- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic
Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda
thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed
routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda
It's been a while since I visited this important topic, but as I was going through my morning
routine today, I
thought I should share my ingenious
design for a composting toilet with the world.
To close the well - being gap, we
think that sociopolitical action and policy reform aimed at changing the odds, that is by equalising opportunities for families of children with ID to sustain a meaningful daily
routine, are as vital, if not more so, than interventions
designed to help these families beat the odds.