{"id":211,"date":"2017-12-15T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/?p=211"},"modified":"2017-12-15T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:14:12","slug":"lrnt-524-assessing-distance-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0025\/lrnt-524-assessing-distance-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT 524 &#8211; Assessing Distance Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>My thoughts, concerns and questions from Assessing d.learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker (Goldman, 2012).\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">How can we understand what is learned in design thinking classes, and how might assessments contribute to that process in authentic and helpful ways?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Mindset vs Mindshifts:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Mindshifts represent the active shifts that a student makes during the design process. They consider instincts and viewpoints. It\u2019s a change in thinking and can happen quickly and intensely or slowly and gradual.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Carol Dweck (2007) states that growth in mindsets can be learned through hardwork towards problem solving.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Mindshifts can be difficult to observe, it would be assumed that to assess they you would focus on tangible things like processes and skill development. However, throughout this study, that viewpoint was shifted to looking more at the epistemological aspects during the evaluation of design thinkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">4 Key Mindshifts:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Human-Centered:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Focuses on empathy for others<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Designers begin to think of the needs, desires, experiences, or preferences of others over their own<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Determine or create design that benefit others<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Is there a link or advantage for people who are naturally empathetic in their personal lives? Can that be easily transferred from personality to the designer?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Experimental:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Focuses on the evolution of design and considering everything as a \u201cprototype\u201d open to constant shifting or change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Collaborative:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Working collaboratively is essential for innovation to occur and to develop stronger problem solving skills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Metacognitive:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Awareness of the learned process and the ability to respond in an agile manor.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Needs of Students in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Skills required to be innovative in this day and age are:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Content learning, life skills, innovation, and fluency with technologies like media and web functionalities are also critical.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif\">Overall Takeaways:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Design thinking encourages out of the box thinking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Technology has made significant advancements in almost all fields from medicine to communication, however when it comes to learning and development, resources are still somewhat archaic in design and have seen little shift or evolution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Not enough onus is on the collection of information on student learning to provide it to individuals who are decision makers capable of supporting ongoing training initiatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Design thinking = problem solving and creative confidence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Design thinking puts doing and innovating at the center of problem solving<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Heightened confidence in thinking things out and finding a new dimension to flush out concepts and innovative challenges, seem to empower students to truly make a difference and change in their lives professionally, personally, and even globally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Mindshifts express the developmental journey of becoming a design thinkers and behaviours and orientation change while somebody is in the process of becoming a design thinker.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 12pt\">Goldman, S. et al. (2012).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link-springer-com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-642-31991-4_2\"><strong>Assessing d.learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker<\/strong><\/a>. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel &amp; L. Leifer (eds).\u00a0<em>Design thinking research: Understanding innovation<\/em>. (pp. 13-33). Berlin: Springer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts, concerns and questions from Assessing d.learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker (Goldman, 2012).\u00a0 How can we understand what is learned in design thinking classes, and how might assessments contribute to that process in authentic and helpful ways? 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