{"id":77,"date":"2017-10-09T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:43:53","slug":"building-a-skill-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/2017\/10\/09\/building-a-skill-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Skill Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"m_1317383755837268539p1\"><span class=\"m_1317383755837268539s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/10\/design-thinking-doodle-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/10\/design-thinking-doodle-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/282\/2017\/10\/design-thinking-doodle.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During my internship, I learned that many in the industry use the Design Thinking process to develop new products.\u00a0 As a result, I decided that I wanted to teach my students how to use Design Thinking to complete a challenge.\u00a0 There are certain skills th<\/span><span class=\"m_1317383755837268539s1\">at will help students to be successful during this process. \u00a0My goal is to slowly incorporate each of these skills into various lessons so that when we reach the design challenge, students will be confidant in how to use design thinking. \u00a0At this point in the school year, I have been incorporating two skills. \u00a0These two skills are building empathy and ideation. \u00a0Students need the ability to empathize with those that they are designing a solution for. \u00a0To familiarize students with developing empathy I have incorporated short video clips into lessons about problems such as access to clean water and food deserts. \u00a0Once students understand empathy, it is easier to define the problem. \u00a0Once you know the problem, you can design a solution. \u00a0Ideation is the process where students brainstorm solutions, there are no bad ideas. \u00a0Students have gotten a lot of practice with ideation. \u00a0Over the course of the semester, students have been working in teams to improve the sustainability of an assigned city. \u00a0With each unit, the team ideates\u00a0solutions that are tailored to their city. \u00a0Topics such as green spaces, community gardens, biodiversity, and urban agriculture have been covered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1317383755837268539p1\"><span class=\"m_1317383755837268539s1\">I have greatly enjoyed folding in this new way of thinking into my lessons. \u00a0I feel that using the skills that are involved in design thinking have helped make the activities more impactful for the students. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my internship, I learned that many in the industry use the Design Thinking process to develop new products.\u00a0 As a result, I decided that I wanted to teach my students how to use Design Thinking to complete a challenge.\u00a0&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2018-lhorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}