Based on my observations and experience, I assume that scaffolding struggling learners is a demanding and difficult process for teachers. However, this assumption just depends on my personal inference. Therefore, I need to come up with something more solid.
I think our visit to THINC gave us, as LDT doctoral students, that opportunity. We had the chance to be involved in the first steps in design thinking. It was fascinating for me. First of all, the THINC studio impacts you a lot when you enter through its gate. It is a well-organized design studio.
Thanks to Jared Bybee, we got involved in a real "field" work to complete the first phase of the design process: empathize. How we can redesign downtown Athens for the people spending some time there was our main question, so we went outside to the streets and talked to the people living in Athens.
It was a great experience for me. After those interviews on the streets, we went back to the studio to define the problems that Athens people have. We had various fruitful discussion and brainstorming sessions.
We tried to take (maybe) the first two steps in design thinking process last Monday afternoon: Empathize and define. However, we have many more to proceed: Ideate, Prototype, Test.
It was a short, but very effective visit that has helped to broaden our horizons!
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