1. Design Thinking in the Learning Commons Patricia Baker Ottawa Catholic
School Board

2. What is Makerspace?
-An area to allow students / patrons to explore, create, build and test their own ideas
-An area where students have equal access to material when needed
-An area where students are free to utilize the design thinking process
-An area where there isn’t interference telling students what to do
What is a Craft Center
-A place where all the students are making similar things with specific instructions and materials

3. What is Design Thinking?
-the steps or cycle a person uses to plan, create, build and test an idea
Step 2
Plan
Discuss
Step 1
Research
Question
Explore
Step 3
Build
Create
Step 5
Evaluate
Assess
Reflect
Step 4
Test
Step 6
Share

4. Teamwork Skills Cooperation Collaboration Expectations
Sharing
Listening
Dividing jobs
Expectations
F Focus - stay on task
R Respect - not grabbing material
A Acceptance - your idea may not
be used by the team
M Manners - use kind words
P Positive Attitude - be excited
and ready to learn
A Active Listening - focused on
the person talking without
anything in your hands
Sharing Ideas
Active Listening
Working as a team

5. Goals
To give students opportunities to use and develop critical thinking and collaboration skills
To help teachers’ understand the process for design thinking and the need to give students time and space to explore and create without interference
To give students the opportunity to share, build and reflect on their experience
To help students understand that it may take many ideas for a solution to be found

6. Timeline
To model design thinking to all classes, the time is kept to 30 minutes.
5 minutes Discuss the different challenges, discuss what collaboration means and how to speak to team members in a positive and respectful way even when there is a disagreement.
20 minutes Break into groups and start challenges
5 minutes Reflect and Discuss how any problems were solved and how well the groups worked together
November’s Topic
- Discuss, define and model collaboration and teamwork skills
December’s Topic
- Discuss what it means to be an active listener