EduTech Today Postdoctoral Fellowships Focus on Design Designing is a intellectual cognitive activity that requires problem identification, decision making, and collaboration. We consider design as both an important capability for all those fields involved in product generation and also an activity that can promote learning of both content knowledge and the skills needed to solve hard problems. We seek to help students learn to be designers and we seek to help students learn through design activities. Our focus on design follows both of these paths. We at EduTech are developing model curricula that promote these capabilities for both undergraduate engineering and design students and also middle school students.
Future designers gain enhanced skills and knowledge for their professional careers.
Middle school students are helped in learning both the content and application of math, physics and technology through their use in open-ended design problems. We are also developing software that helps students reflect on their problem-solving experiences, better understand problems they are solving, make sound decisions, and effectively collaborate with one another. These skills and experiences will prepare students for a lifetime of productivity.