Challenge Overview As the facilitator of the Industrial Designer’s Society of America (IDSA) K12 Design Education Initiative, I am delighted
to invite you to challenge your students to a world of infinite creative ideas as
they tackle a problem worth solving within your classroom, school,
neighborhood, or community – the goal, to create innovative outcomes that have
positive impact within one of the following teacher-selected themes:
In partnership with the National Art Education Association, IDSA offers all K-12 educators (as facilitators) and students (as learners) to participate in Challenge 2013 within your classroom, school club, or afterschool program. This integrated study will engage your students in a highly interactive and collaborative learning process grounded in creativity, problem solving, and innovative thinking. Challenge 2013 offers productive opportunities to integrate:
With an option to team up with college art and design students and/or design practitioners, you will embrace design “pedagogy” (methods used by designers to learn.think.do) as your fundamental approach to teaching and learning. Your learners will be challenged in a collaborative manner anchored in critical and creative inquiry to investigate and report on a topic of their choice. Learners will explore creative ways to “see with their eyes” as well as “see with their minds” as they tap into their sense of curiosity – the objective, to learn how to make good decisions with the intent to produce innovative outcomes by way of one of the following forms of design:
Come join us in the Design Learning Challenge 2013! Doris
Wells-Papanek, MEd, IDSA |