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Design Thinking & ADST

Design Thinking & ADST

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Blog Posts, engSTEAM, Learning Design & Planning, Not Subject Specific, Secondary | Tagged with ADST, applied skills, curriculum, design, design challenge, design challenges, design thinking, makerspace, sandbox session

Design Thinking is a series of steps that can help people understand the nature of a problem, then consider and test solutions. These steps are part of a cyclical process: the proposed solution may not solve the problem, and then participants will have to go back to earlier steps and work their way through again. […]

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Design Challenges: Creating Class Community

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, Active Learning, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, Learning Design & Planning, Post Secondary, Resource, Secondary | Tagged with design, inquiry

Providing students with opportunities to work together, to set and achieve goals and problem solve through the process can help foster community building. Having students participate in a design challenge (developed by the teacher) is one way to facilitate purposeful, interdisciplinary engagement, in your classroom. As students become more familiar with the design thinking process, […]

ADST Woodworking Basics Resources

ADST Woodworking Basics Resources

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, K-3, mathSTEAM, techSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, design, STEAM, woodworking

Woodworking is an activity that can support life long skill development and the ADST curriculum across grade levels. With careful planning and consideration for safety (as well as appropriate school permission!) even very young children can learn to use hammers, saws, screwdrivers and other woodworking tools. In my own elementary school teaching, I had the […]

Pop Up Making! (in LLED 350 and 360)

Pop Up Making! (in LLED 350 and 360)

Posted in 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Blog Posts, K-3 | Tagged with ADST, design, design challenge, make, makerspace, scarfe sandbox

This month, in the Scarfe Digital Sandbox (Scarfe 155) every teacher candidate in the Bed program (elementary, middle and secondary) will have the opportunity to participate in a ‘Makerspace’ as part of your orientation to Library and Information Literacy with your LLED 350 and LLED 360 course. In Scarfe 155 (through the ed lib), we’ll […]

Canada Learning Code : Introducing coding in your classroom

Canada Learning Code : Introducing coding in your classroom

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, English, Resource | Tagged with ADST, coding, creativity, design, Free, science, Teacher Use, unplugged coding

  Canada Learning Code is a charitable initiative dedicated to advancing digital literacy for all Canadians. Founded in 2016, it has focused on designing, delivering and unifying coding education in Canada through partnerships with technology education programs such as Ladies Learning Code, Teachers Learning Code, Kids Learning Code, Girls Learning Code and Teens Learning Code. […]


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