面向未来的WIS设计课程
“Design thinking brings the International Baccalaureate’s mission – to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who create new ideas to solve real-world issues – to life. ”
孩子们从小就拥有不同的兴趣和天赋。所以我们可以围绕孩子们感兴趣的东西培养设计思维,并将课程纳入整体思维模式。
在杭州娃哈哈外籍人员子女学校,我们将设计与基于STEAM的元素纳入了小学PYP课程,以帮助学生在IB学习生涯中建立这些创新理念。
Design thinking is used to enhance the learning experience and outcomes among children. This kind of thinking involves a fluid, interactive, and dynamic approach to solving problems. Young children especially are masters of imagination and intuition. They have not been exposed to stereotypes and corrupted knowledge that tends to kill creativity in adults. In fact, it is easy to incorporate design thinking into their natural way of learning. Young learners tend to be creative and are also inquisitive. In a learning environment, they will ask questions that are beyond their level of thinking.
设计思维的基础包括发现、移情、实验和产生结果(DEEP)。实际的过程需要移情、定义、构思、创造、建立模型和测试。所以老师应该走在最前沿,从幼儿阶段开始帮助培养发展这种DEEP思维方法,使课堂体验成为创新、创造力、想象力和直觉的舞台。
在WIS的MYP设计课程中,我们引导学生理解和运用创造性和批判性的思维技能,这有助于他们使用设计思维和技能来解决现实生活中的问题。MYP初中课程的学生学习被教导如何正确使用各种工具,比如Adobe Creative套件、激光切割机、3D打印机、机器人以及Cricut机器和其他动手实践技术。借助这些工具,他们能够创建多维项目,通过批判性和创造性思维来展示他们的学习深度。
当学生们在多个维度上参与课程时,他们的学习效果是最好的。
- 帮助孩子发现创造的能力。
- 让学生批判性地思考如何将二维设计转换为现实世界的物体。
- 在工程类课程中能够快速构建原型。
- Help students achieve that elusive “Wow – I made that” moment.
The upcoming year students will be venturing into creating new technology to make agriculture more efficient, sustainable, and environmentally friendly working with vertical growing techniques and establishing a creative greenhouse with inspiration from Disney’s Living with the Land greenhouse. The Innovation Lab contains a variety of technology and equipment where students will be getting hands-on experience working with woods and other materials such as resin to develop products based on the needs of consumers in Hangzhou.
The students are currently working on a sustainability project where they are demonstrating through recycled materials and design how animals are directly affected through pollution for Ocean Conservancy Month. Stay tuned to see these fantastic multi-dimensional projects when they’re completed this month.