Category: Design
October 4, 2021 | Jennifer Stein and Cassandra Kellaris | Design, Learning Futures
Over 160 educators, leaders and community members engaged in Project Springboard from spring to summer of 2021, spanning across the US, Canada and Australia. The project wrapped up in August with a final online session, and we have created a report that summarizes the experience, outcomes and feedback we received. A common theme was the value of connecting with like-minded educators from across the world, especially during the challenges of COVID.
February 12, 2021 | Sean Leahy | Design, Learning Futures, Technology
Revisit the keynote for the 2021 ShapingEDU Winter Games, a story of uncertainty, disruption, and resilience. See how we define learning futures, tackle the challenge of designing educational systems, explore strategic foresight tools, and build an ecosystem if resilience into our IgnitED Labs.
February 12, 2021 | Punya Mishra | Design, Learning Futures
Danah Henriksen and I were recently invited to present a keynote (and conduct two workshops) on design thinking and STEAM education at the 2021 NV STEAM conference, organized by the Nevada Museum of Art and Desert Research Institute.
January 27, 2021 | Kyle Wagner | Design
In late 2019, the OofSI team was approached by Access ASU and Be A Leader Foundation about an opportunity to provide training to a group of newly hired coaches who would be working with schools in multiple school districts.
December 1, 2020 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
Learn about our team’s effort to lead a national workshop collaboration focused on the designing future undergraduate STEM education, and the lessons we learned along the way about collaborating remotely and at scale.
August 3, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
Implementing large-scale changes within educational systems can be a challenging task. In this paper we argue that these efforts can be fruitfully seen as being an act of design that take place within a complex social system.
July 27, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
“What knowledge is of most worth?” is a question asked over a 100 years ago by the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer. His unequivocal answer was—science.
May 26, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
It is rarely that I hear a talk that blows me away.
May 18, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
All of us involved in social design (and I include education in among those as well) ask ourselves, or are asked this question: How do we measure the impact of the work we do? This begs the question, why measure in the first place? Lord Kelvin, one of
March 5, 2020 | Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian | Design, Principled Innovation
This is the second of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.
March 4, 2020 | Punya Mishra and Cristy Guleserian | Design, Principled Innovation
This is the first of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures.
March 2, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
Theory is of incredible importance to scholars and researchers. Theories allow us to understand, explain and predict phenomena in the world. That said it is often difficult to say just where theories come from.
February 28, 2020 | Kyle Wagner | Design
Before you can build an education or training game, it’s important to figure out what the instructional goals and learning objectives need to be for your players.
February 24, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design, Principled Innovation
Our college has embraced the idea of Principled Innovation as being a core value that informs everything we do.
February 7, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
Design is core to my identity, to who I am. Education is the space within which I function but I try to approach everything I do as a designer. This was not always the case.
January 24, 2020 | Punya Mishra | Design
I just came across a quote from Alan Kay while browsing the web. Alan Kay is a programmer, educator, jazz musician and one of the key inventors of computing as we know it today.
January 6, 2020 | Daniel Brasic | Design
We have been creating short videos to welcome the new year since 2008. This year was no exception. These videos, created on a shoe-string budget, are usually typographical in nature with some kind of an optical illusion or AHA! moment built in.
December 19, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design
I love to talk about design and education. I like to hang out with people who care about design and education. This brings us to a website/blog created by a group of graduate students (and faculty) at the Teachers College that seeks to explore “design in all its richness.”
November 7, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design, Principled Innovation
Quick summary: In which I disparage the buzzword “design thinking” even while praising the idea of design; point to the value-neutral nature of design and the need for a more principled approach, and end with a video that seeks to capture a vision of principled innovation embedded into the design process.
August 5, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design
Anyone who works in the area of social design knows how important it is to develop a systems-oriented mindset and how difficult it is to do so.
July 26, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design
One of the most exciting projects we have been involved with in the Office of Scholarship and Innovation (OofSI) has been our partnership with the Kyrene School District.
July 22, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
This is the final installment of a series of blog posts about my adventure as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.
July 21, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
This is the fifth installment of a series of blog posts about my journey as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.
July 20, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
This is the fourth installment of a series of blog posts about my experience as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.
July 19, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
This is the third installment of a series of posts about my key learnings as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.
July 18, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
This is the second installment of a series of posts about my key learnings as a Design Strategist within the Office of Scholarship & Innovation.
July 2, 2019 | Hannah Scully | Design
This is a special guest blog contribution from Hannah Scully. Hannah is an undergraduate Barrett Honors College student in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and completed her Honors Thesis on design thinking and its use throughout education.
June 17, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
When you first see the title to this blog post, you might think that there’s not much to say about Columbus, Ohio… and what does it have to do with our team?
June 12, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
Last week, our seven Teacher Instructional Leaders (TILs) at Coronado High School had their last day before starting summer vacation. Besides writing HAGS (have a good summer) in their imaginary yearbooks, how did we leave things?
May 20, 2019 | Emili Cabrera | Design
Six months ago, I was asked if I had any experience with the design process or design thinking during an interview. I really wanted this job, but I knew I wasn’t going to lie, so I said I had no clue.
May 8, 2019 | Claire Gilbert | Design
As another school year ends, we’ve taken the time to talk with teachers at Coronado High School about their efforts to increase community involvement and student engagement at their school.
May 8, 2019 | Jake Winfield | Design
Now that my classes are all finished, I’ve had a chance to think about what I’ve learned as an OofSI Design Fellow.
April 21, 2019 | Punya Mishra | Design
The journey of design is complicated, filled with conundrums —some expected, others not so much. There are many possible strategies to address them as we iterate our way to the finish line.
April 3, 2019 | Elizabeth Mirabal | Design
We recently had our first Admin Meeting! This was the first opportunity for almost all Teachers College administrative and support staff to meet face to face. At first you may think, ok, so what’s the big deal? Why is this so exciting?
March 22, 2019 | Jennifer Stein | Design
During our team’s fourth and final February visit to San Diego, I had the privilege of being part of the MLFTC team that attended the two-day event, held at High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education.
March 15, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
In the third installment of the Design team traveling to San Diego, Christina talks about her experiences at the Ashoka U Conference!
March 14, 2019 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
On Tuesday 2/12, I jumped back over to San Diego for my second visit in a week to “America’s Finest City.” This time, I went to join a convening of education innovators and changemakers to network and share approaches to school design and r
March 11, 2019 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
Over the last year, our Design Team at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has worked with Kyrene School District to imagine what is possible.
March 6, 2019 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
On Tuesday 2/5 and Wednesday 2/6, my colleague Jennifer Stein and I traveled to La Jolla, California for the Higher Ed Innovators and Disruptors: Social Mobility & Student Success Conference, which was organized by the Student Retention and Success team at UC San Diego.
February 14, 2019 | Claire Gilbert | Design
You never know what will capture a student’s attention and propel them towards certain careers.
January 31, 2019 | Emili Cabrera | Design
As a Design Fellow with the OofSI Design Initiatives team, I had the opportunity to support a kick-off event for the Arizona Rural Education Collaborative on Friday, January 18th at ASU Skysong.
January 29, 2019 | Jake Winfield | Design
Our design team has been facilitating the ongoing cross staff initiatives to improve MLFTC, which involves bringing an intrapreneurial, design approach to addressing problems that staff in the college experience.
January 28, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
All I can say is that without these innovative changemakers, we’d be “in danger of flunking most heinously tomorrow.”
January 15, 2019 | Christina Ngo | Design
Last week, Dr. Yong Zhao gave a talk at the MU titled “What Works May Hurt: Side Effects in Education”. Our office scored the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Zhao and just talk.
January 3, 2019 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
As a gardener, I can tell you that staying at the surface of things doesn’t serve our plants well, and the same of our children. Students at Miami Junior High are getting the chance to grow deep roots.
December 18, 2018 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
MLFTC teacher candidates in the Washington Elementary School District created change this semester.
December 17, 2018 | Christina Ngo | Design
In December, two new Design Fellows joined our team. We are excited to welcome them to the team and leverage their unique talents. Keep reading to learning a little bit about them. What are you studying/working on? How did you end up at ASU? Emili: I a
December 10, 2018 | Claire Gilbert | Design
Our latest Cross-Staff design session was held last Friday, and two teams (the Communication, Collaboration and Climate (CCC) group and the Onboarding and Organizational Growth (O and OG) group) shared what they’ve discovered over the past few weeks.
November 5, 2018 | Christina Ngo | Design
The Design Initiatives team wouldn’t be the Design Initiatives team if we didn’t also prototype on ourselves, and test new ways of doing the work we do.
October 9, 2018 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
As part of a semester-long pilot program, ASU teacher candidates in the Washington district are using design thinking to address school challenges.
October 9, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Design
I had posted earlier about the work our Design Initiatives team is involved with at Miami Junior-Senior High School. Essentially the entire faculty and leadership at the school have taken on the challenge of re-imagining the 7/8 curriculum through an integrated historical lens.
September 27, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Design
I have been at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for two years now (actually two years and a month, but who is counting). In many ways this has been an incredible two years, a period of personal and professional growth and an opportunity to truly engage with some of most difficult and challenging issues facing education today.
September 27, 2018 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
Asking people to build index card towers tells you a lot about them.
September 25, 2018 | Christina Ngo | Design
#OofSI’s Design Initiatives team hosted a group of MLFTC staff on the Polytechnic Campus for a workshop around the design process.
August 27, 2018 | Lisa Wyatt | Design
When MLFTC teacher candidates (a.k.a. student teachers) in Washington Elementary District came together on July 27, they were wide-eyed and unsure. What is design thinking, I could read their eyes saying, and why are we doing this?
August 2, 2018 | Christina Ngo | Design
Where there’s a will (to be wild), there’s a way.
July 31, 2018 | Jennifer Stein | Design
three new staff members joined the Design Initiatives team: Claire Gilbert as Multimedia Specialist, and Christina Ngo and Lisa Wyatt, both as Design Strategists.
July 16, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Design
I just got back from a lovely few days in Bangalore. I was there to participate in the Quest 2 Learn Annual Summit organized by the Quest Alliance.
May 13, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Design
One of the most exciting parts of my job are the cool people I get to meet. Glen Lineberry is one of them. Glen is Principal at Miami Junior-Senior High School.
May 10, 2018 | Jennifer Stein | Design
MLFTC’s cross-staff design teams presented prototypes at the year-end “showcase” event held on April 30 at SkySong.
April 11, 2018 | Jennifer Stein | Design
The Kyrene-ASU Design Team is making plans for each team member to spend a day shadowing a student in the district in order to develop empathy and a deeper understanding of what school is really like from the students’ perspective.
March 3, 2018 | Punya Mishra | Design
I was recently in Baltimore for the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), with a team from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
October 27, 2017 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
As part of an exciting new district partnership, the Office of Scholarship and Innovation kicked off a community design lab with the Avondale Elementary School District
September 14, 2017 | Benjamin Scragg | Design
As we continue to dive into an open-ended design process with the Madison administrative leadership team, five teams have emerged with specific challenges they want to tackle.
September 10, 2017 | Stephany Romero | Design
When we say we want to help create change within educational settings, we truly mean all facets of education, even the areas that many don’t typically think about when the word “education” comes up.
August 11, 2017 | Jennifer Stein | Design
We are working with the administrative leadership team at Madison School District on a design process to address some of the challenges the district faces.
July 27, 2017 | Jennifer Stein | Design
Our first design workshop with the administrative leadership team at Madison Elementary School District took place this week!