Project 2
Design a Learning Space/Design Learning Into a Space
Goals: - Combine theory with practice in consultation with real-life partners responsible for real-life spaces - Think deeply about assessment tools and generate innovative assessment strategies - Use your group’s design to contribute to the class project of building a rubric for designing learning spaces and assessing learning in spaces.
Assignment:
As a team (2 – 4 people) identify an actual learning space, work with a contact from the organization that uses that space, then propose a design that makes that space better for learning for at least one group of learners. You can work with one of the organizations where we have contacts, or you can use/develop your own contacts at another institution that is more interesting to you.
Imagine your team will present your design to the board of directors of the organization you are creating your design for. For example, if you choose to create a new history classroom for Sequoia High School (Redwood City), imagine you are presenting to the district’s school board. There are no budget constraints and you do not need to propose a budget with your redesign, but you can only use existing technologies and materials.
One group will have a chance to pick a ‘mystery project’. The site and specifics won’t be known until after the group commits, but the project is larger in scope than anything we will have covered in this class.
Deliverable:
1) Complete a product visual/portfolio/website/storyboard –– that includes: • Design rationale: why is the intervention important now? Where is the learning? • Specific location of space: Terminal 2 at SFO; Green Library 1st Floor, etc • Assessment Plan: How could you establish a minimum improvement in learning? What is the best-case scenario? What is more realistic? • Images, sketches, mockups, observations, interviews, and any other data that you gathered or iterations that you produced throughout the project
2) 6-8 page written report describing the entire project
3) In class skit/enactment/commercial/video/tour of how your space works. How are people engaged in your space? With props, script, etc. The class has to “get it” through this presentation. 2 minute maximum.
Milestones:
- May 1: Form team and identify a space
- May 8: Post to WIKI, first thoughts (brainstorms, reflections, observations,) can be images, sketches, lists, etc.
- May 15: Present Needs, Approach, Benefits, Competition, (NABC) analysis. One page, can be folded into your presentation later. Detailed Description on 5/8
Criteria:
- Creativity of Intervention: reflection of learning principles? original assessment ideas? - Level of detail in observations: uncovering multiple perspective, identifying multiple audiences and stakeholders, incorporating, contextual elements, explicit and tacit information - Demonstrated understanding of specific space, organization, and people involved - Clarity of Presentation
What’s Different From P1:
- More sophisticated integration of learning principles, design process and assessment approach (but remembering that the learning comes first) - Refined understanding of the organizations around the space being designed - Work on best-case scenario and present from there. - Gain experience working with others and with constraints of real life.
Time for Project:
20 hours per person maximum, including preparing for skit and website/visual/portfolio
Due: May 22