Innovative Designer – ISTE Student Standards
Innovative Designer – ISTE Student Standards
- December 4, 2017
- Posted by: Jamie Russell
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Innovative Designer – ISTE Student Standards
3 Stripes Default Point
What is innovative design?
“The world no longer cares how much you know; the world cares about what you can do with what you know.” – Tony Wagner, Innovation Education Fellow, Harvard, 2012
INNOVATIVE DESIGNER STANDARDS
- Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
- Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
- Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
- Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.
Teachers who build up innovative designers in their classrooms help students to:
- “learn about design processes and how to apply them.”
- “apply design practices to come up with new projects or products.”
- “develop and test their own products or solutions.”
(From page 9 of the Ed Tech Product Development Guide by ISTE)
Resources
- Innovative Designer Tools on Stripes
- Innovative Designer standard opens the door to students’ imaginative, creative energy – Paula Don, ISTE Empowered Learner Blog
- 5 ways to help students become innovative designers – Laura Taddei, ISTE Standards in Action
- Science 2.0: Help Students Become Innovative Designers – NSTA Blog
Earn Your Stripe
- Watch the video above.
- Submit below any experiences you completed with students that pushed them to be innovative designers.
- Explain the connection between these experiences and the ISTE standard.