- What was the most surprising thing that you learned by participating in the design thinking process and designing and developing your digital learning resource?
- Nothing really surprised me during the process I wouldn’t say, but I guess I didn’t really expect the responses I got, not anticipate embarking on the direction I ended up taking my design during the empathy phase. I thought i had a pretty good handle on what my colleagues would need, and what they were up against, but the degrees of technological and pedagogical aptitude varied quite dramatically. As a result, I had to scaffold instruction for the various instructional objectives I hoped to achieve with my digital learning tool(DLT).
- What suggestions and improvements did you receive? Did you get any feedback that you did not expect? What feedback needs further investigation?
- The initial feedback from my instructor was helpful, but some suggestions were not tenable due to the medium chosen. Google Classroom is a rigid tool, thatoffers some flexibility, but very little customiseability. This was coupled by the fact that Google Classroom itslef underwent a major design overhaul the weekend after I submitted my final tool. This meant many of the features and instructional modules were not where I had set them initially, and may not have even been found by the instructor, nor by my fellow cohorts evaluating my resource.
- Feedback from my colleagues cited my inclusion of useful resources, but without providing practical applications, they noted that the bias from the application provider they would be exposed to would be significant. I agree with this assessment, and had previously planned to address this issue with hands on activity suggestions, but in the time allotted for the whole activity, I did not have time to put this all together. It is good to see at least that my evantual intent was at least on the same page as my evaluator.
- Further feedback indicated that my modular instructions were at times too broad, and needed more focus. While I was aware of this in part during the design, my evaluator did orovide me with soem useful suggestions that I could apply to future iterations of this tool that would make it more user friendly, and objective focussed.
- What are the next steps you would like to take to build upon your digital learning resource?
- I would like to continue to add and develop resources and modules to it to make it a more functional DLT with a broader reach. Because I am in a position to continue to do so in my day to day practice, I expect that I will be able to do so.
- Building on the feedback from my evaluator, I plan to only put forth more clear and complete elements of this tool, to provide it as a more practical and user ready resource, that focuses learning a bit better.
Prototype Reflection (U3 Activity 2)
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