San Diego USD Google for Education Workshops

The process of design thinking provides a valuable methodology for schools and educators who wish to become more creative and innovative in how they approach their craft. This process has a wide range of applicability, from supporting the creation of such things as a framework for a 1:1 initiative to providing a pedagogical foundation for classroom learning. In all cases, the process provides an effective pathway for working and learning in new ways that can lead to new, creative, and compelling working and learning opportunities for school organizations and its educators. In this workshop, you'll have the opportunity to learn the pathway of design thinking by directly engaging in an educational issue worth developing solutions for. We'll engage you in a series of design charettes where you will experience each element of design thinking process and have the time to master the skills required to employ the process. We'll challenge you to learn how to approach problems with empathy, how to ideate, prototype and iterate your way to creative insights. If this process sounds interesting, join us for an intense workshop on design thinking, where you’ll be introduced to a process that can be used to fuel imagination and drive creative solution finding. We’ll form design teams, ideate and prototype solutions, and expand and apply the process to everything Google. Post-It Notes and Sharpies provided!

Workshop Outcomes
Describe how the process of design thinking promotes the development of a mindset grounded in creativity and innovative thought.
Explain the steps of the design thinking process and how each work towards solution finding.
Apply the process of design thinking to address a contemporary issue in education.
Use elements of the Google Apps for Education to support engaging in design thinking.
Discuss how design thinking can be used as a pedagogical process that can support inquiry and project-based learning.
Create a foundation of understanding that can be used for further study and individual study around the application of design thinking to education.

The process of design thinking provides a valuable methodology for schools and educators who wish to become more creative and innovative in how they approach their craft. This process has a wide range of applicability, from supporting the creation of such things as a framework for a 1:1 initiative to providing a pedagogical foundation for classroom learning. In all cases, the process provides an effective pathway for working and learning in new ways that can lead to new, creative, and compelling working and learning opportunities for school organizations and its educators. In this workshop, you'll have the opportunity to learn the pathway of design thinking by directly engaging in an educational issue worth developing solutions for. We'll engage you in a series of design charettes where you will experience each element of design thinking process and have the time to master the skills required to employ the process. We'll challenge you to learn how to approach problems with empathy, how to ideate, prototype and iterate your way to creative insights. If this process sounds interesting, join us for an intense workshop on design thinking, where you’ll be introduced to a process that can be used to fuel imagination and drive creative solution finding. We’ll form design teams, ideate and prototype solutions, and expand and apply the process to everything Google. Post-It Notes and Sharpies provided!

Workshop Outcomes

• Describe how the process of design thinking promotes the development of a mindset grounded in creativity and innovative thought.
• Explain the steps of the design thinking process and how each work towards solution finding.
• Apply the process of design thinking to address a contemporary issue in education.
• Use elements of the Google Apps for Education to support engaging in design thinking.
• Discuss how design thinking can be used as a pedagogical process that can support inquiry and project-based learning.
• Create a foundation of understanding that can be used for further study and individual study around the application of design thinking to education.

So you've been using Google Classroom for the past year, but now you're ready to move beyond the basics? Are you sick of only using it as a "Digital Photocopier"? Maybe you just want to see what new features have been added to the tool over the past couple of months? Come learn how to take your students' learning to the next level in Classroom, all while giving them the freedom to easily create, curate, and collaborate along with their classmates on any assignment! It's time for Google Classroom, 2.0! Beyond Classroom we will explore lesson design in Google Docs, and advanced background design for your Google Drive.
Workshop Outcomes
Use Google Classroom to create formative and/or summative assessments.
Facilitate long-term student projects using Google Classroom.
Incorporate rubrics and standards based grading into Google Classroom assignments.
Create no-hassle student digital portfolios.
If students have access to mobile devices, attendees will learn how the app can be used to transform field trips/outside of the classroom learning.