Table of Contents
Foreword Michelle Luhtala xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
1 Introduction: What Is Human-Centered Design? 1
2 The Personas 7
3 A Design Process 15
4 Designing Curricula: A New Mindset for Curriculum Development 19
How Might We Leverage Content Standards to Empower Informed Student Action and Civic Engagement? 19
5 Human-Centered Collaboration: Colleagues as Designers 35
How Might We Enhance Student Learning through Transdisciplinary Colleague Collaboration? 35
6 Learning by Design: Putting Students at the Center as Design Thinkers 51
How Might We Disrupt the Traditional Classroom Structure to Empower Students to Be Agents of Change and to Take Informed Action? 51
Case 1 High School Sociology Class 52
Case 2 Digital Literacy Class 58
Case 3 Advanced Placement Chemistry 64
Case 4 The Great Gatsby Essay 68
Case 5 Ninth-Grade World History 70
Case 6 Sixth-Grade Sociai Studies 73
Case 7 Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Design 81
Case 8 Rethinking the Traditional Public Policy Paper in Civics Class 83
Case 9 Designing for a Multigrade Classroom 86
Case 10 Building a Safe Learning Environment in Third Grade 88
Case 11 An Entrepreneurial Educator Promoting Student Agency 90
Case 12 Solving Real-World Problems through Game-Based Design 93
7 Distance Learning by Design 99
8 Conclusions: Mindset Matters Most 107
Appendix A Resources 111
Appendix B Templates and Organizers 113
Appendix C Technology Resources 121
References 123
Index 125
