Oh, what a controversial post title… Welcome, fellow traveler of the #UWinDig seas. Please, grab a seat. Stick around. I did a twitter essay – two actually.
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Part 1 – in which I come to the conclusion that the technologist module is mostly fine, but also maybe useless.
Hey, get ready for 30+ tweets to get posted at once again. Doing a fun little reflection on the @OntarioExtend technologist module. First let’s take a little walk through the module to summarize… #UWinDig #OntarioExtend 1/?
— mjcsf ? noot* noot** ? (*2020 **sucks) (@mjcsf_) February 21, 2019
Part 2 – in which I talk about design thinking being a sham and make 1 VERY good joke (CW: NAUGHTY WORDS)
Ok, so first off…
Design thinking manages to over complicate things (who is the user? what does the user need? what can we give them? Lets try to give them that. Didn’t work? Bummer, Let’s try again) …#UWinDig— mjcsf ? noot* noot** ? (*2020 **sucks) (@mjcsf_) February 21, 2019
Reflection… (a lot of reflection is in the twitter thread, so I’ll try not to repeat myself too much here)
As stated in the first twitter thread, I did not find the module to be that useful. Though I understand that it would definitely be helpful to a lot of teachers. As I mention in the thread, their are a ton of great links to useful tools for the classroom. It’s just that most of it seemed like common sense to me. I’m curious how many others found the module to be mostly common sense. Am I crazy? Am I too cynical?
Anyways, because of this I had a hard time figuring out what to do my reflection on at all. I ended up doing what I always do: complaining. It was a lot of fun! I had already been reading about education fads a lot over the last few months, as well as instances of education misrepresenting things from other disciplines (psych and neuropsych mostly). So this topic kind of lines up all my current education related interests. If I had more time I probably would have made a silly video, but I’ll have to save that for another day.
Here’s some good links I posted in the twitter thread that I’m going to post here as well, because I’m such a fun guy.
- This Vox video on doors that is very interesting
2. This video form a conference that is also very interesting and gives some history of design thinking and the perspective of a designer (Natasha Jen: Design Thinking is Bullshit)
3. This very appropriate (and not at all edgy) Medium post (Design Thinking is Kind of Like Syphilis – It’s Contagious and Rots Your Brains) – *this guy is probably being a little harsh
