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• Human-Centered • Learning Through Making

Design Thinking – A Mindset for Curricular Change • Speculation-Driven • Solution-Focused

Empathy: Who are you designing for? Does your thinking take into consideration all of
your students? How can – how should – your design take into consideration who you
students are when they enter your curriculum? Where do you want them to be in
Year 2, 3, etc.? Who do you hope they will be as learners, professionals, citizens –
people – at the end of their journey through your curriculum? Who are you
engaging in you redesign? What are their cares and concerns?

Define: What is the problem your curricular change is attempting to solve? What are its
multiple moving parts? Based on your work in the empathy stage, what new
insights/nuances need to be addressed as you define the problem.

Ideate: This step is about generating as many potential solution as possible. To do that, we
are going to start by suspending judgement on ANY idea. We will take real world
constraints into consideration in the next step. Can you identify and then table (for
now!) those concerns that are barriers to creative brainstorming? How many
creative solutions can you generate? When reviewing your solutions, frame your
feedback to generate more creative conversations –
“I like… I wish… I wonder….”

Prototype: Can you map the learning of your proposed curricular change, not just the course
sequence? How are you addressing issues of alignment, scaffolding, and scaling?
Can you articulate “To what end?” – to what end are you changing your approach to
general education and/or assessment? Prompt others to share their feedback with
you “I like… I wish… I wonder…”

Test: What is your game plan for testing out your ideas on campus? Are you going to
pilot? What evidence do you need to garner to make a compelling case? Who are
your allies? What obstacles will you face? How will you return to empathy to
navigate, synthesize, and accommodate the feedback you receive?

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