Student-Centered Learning by Design

Foreword by Michelle Luhtala Preface Acknowledgments 1—Introduction: What Is Human-Centered Design? 2—The Personas 3—A Design Process 4—Designing Curricula: A New Mindset for Curriculum Development How Might We Leverage Content Standards to Empower Informed Student Action and Civic Engagement?19 5—Human-Centered Collaboration: Colleagues as Designers How Might We Enhance Student Learning through Transdisciplinary Colleague Collaboration?35 6—Learning by Design: Putting Students at the Center as Design Thinkers How Might We Disrupt the Traditional Classroom Structure to Empower Students to Be Agents of Change and to Take Informed Action? 51 Case 1: High School Sociology Class 52 Case 2: Digital Literacy Class 58 Case 3: Advanced Placement Chemistry 64 Case 4: The Great Gatsby Essay 68 Case 5: Ninth-Grade World History 70 Case 6: Sixth-Grade Social Studies 73 Case 7: Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Design 81 Case 8: Rethinking the Traditional Public Policy Paper in Civics Class 83 Case 9: Designing for a Multigrade Classroom 86 Case 10: Building a Safe Learning Environment in Third Grade 88 Case 11: An Entrepreneurial Educator Promoting Student Agency 90 Case 12: Solving Real-World Problems through Game-Based Design 93 7—Distance Learning by Design 8—Conclusions: Mindset Matters Most Appendix A: Resources Appendix B: Templates and Organizers Appendix C: Technology Resources References Index