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Boosting Students’ Innovative Design and Computational Thinking Through Project-Based Learning in Higher Education

Ignasia Yuyun February 21, 2022 February 21, 202201 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Computational Thinker, EDTC6102, Innovative Designer, ISTE Standard Students, ISTE4, ISTE5

Higher Education emphasizes higher-order thinking (HOT) activities to equip students…

On Promoting Successful Navigation of Choice and Ambiguity While Acknowledging the Paradox of Choice

Joseph February 21, 2021 February 21, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, course design, existentialism, Innovative Designer, psychology, student-professor communication

ISTE Standard for Students 4D recommends that “Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.” This week I am interested in how to promote those characteristics in an online higher ed learning environment. From my experience, it’s a fine line between giving students freedom one hand, and causing…

Using Code to Teach the Design Process

Ed Tech Dowd February 18, 2018 February 18, 2018EDTC6102, Innovative Designer

Innovative Designers ISTE Standard for Students #4 is “Innovative Designer: Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.” There are four indicators listed under this standard and the first indicator reads: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating […]

All Innovative Designers Need Good Tools

EdTechRedefined February 12, 2017 February 12, 2017Innovative Designer, Teaching, Learning, and Assessments, Tools

As we’ve been looking at ISTE standard 4: Innovative Designer this week I found myself stuck on the idea of “Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or … Continue reading →

Living in the Mystery: Ambiguity and Open-Ended Questions and ISTE Standard #4

Ryan’s Blog February 12, 2017 February 12, 2017Abiguity, Creative, EDTC6102, Innovative Designer, ISTE Student Standards, ISTE4

“But I Just Want to Know the Right Answer!” Teaching is a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, we have to help our students understand content, but on the other, we have to help our students become better thinkers. Sometimes, these goals seem contradictory. The quote above was a frustrated response I got … Continue reading “Living in the Mystery: Ambiguity and Open-Ended Questions and ISTE Standard #4”

Module 3 – Innovative Designer

Ms. K Henderson February 12, 2017 February 12, 20176102, EDTC6102, ELL, Innovative Designer, ISTE, Sentence Frames

This week we were asked to look at ISTE Student Standard 4 – Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions. Looking more closely at 4d, I questioned, how can I support students to persevere and work with open-ended ambiguous problems. … Continue reading “Module 3 – Innovative Designer”

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