Teaching Design/Designing Teaching

The goal of Teaching Design/Designing Teaching initiative is to link members of the Design Educators Community with faculty members outside the design field in investigations of new teaching and learning practices that emerge in a networked culture. The initiative is twofold, beginning with a plan to bring the unique perspectives and knowledge of design educators to a broader educators' community seeking ways to explore new forms of academic expression. The second stage of the initiative moves in the opposite direction, asking how new teaching and learning practices might impact design educators. In short, this initiative asks what DEC can do to help develop a broader "design literacy" to be adopted as we all explore media-rich forms of expression. And what can design educators learn from that broader field of new pedagogies for teaching design? Please contact Holly Willis for further information: hwillis@cinema.usc.edu

Some Resources
The Futures of Learning Blog was started by scholars Mimi Ito and David Theo Goldberg as a discussion space for ideas related to new media and learning. The blog follows two areas, namely the adoption of digital and networked media and overviews of the ways in which educational institutions are using new media in innovative ways.

"Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Learning," by Henry Jenkins and a team of researchers, outlines new modes of learning in the 21st century, with attention specifically to Play, Performance, Simulation, Appropriation, Multitasking, Distributed Cognition, Collective Intelligence, Judgment and Transmedia Navigation. How can we use these skills in design education?

The Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium, outlines the technologies destined to impact education in the coming five years. This year, NMC created both a report for higher education, and one focused on K-12.

Posted by designeducators in Initiatives | June 10, 2009