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Designing for Good: Introducing CAD to Foster Social Impact in Education

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Grand Hyatt - Texas Ballroom E

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Session description

This workshop explores how teachers can use CAD to inspire social impact. In a student-teacher co-presentation, we’ll share our experience with student-centered projects where students designed kindness toys and musical instruments, covering software used, instructional materials, student guidelines, and insights on challenges and lessons learned.

Outline

Introduction (5 minutes)

Introducing our approach to student-centered learning of Computer-Aided Design with Fusion360 (5 minutes)

Explaining to Human-Centered design projects and our partnership to encourage social impact. (5 minutes)

Students share their own experience of designing the kindness toy and the musical instrument (5 minutes)

A demo of how we teach CAD (15 minutes)

Short ideation activity, facilitated by presenters (20 minutes)

Wrap up (5 minutes)

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Supporting research

Ehsan, H., Quintana-Cifuentes, J. P., Purzer, S., & Rehmat, A. P. (2023). Engineering design and children: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 11(3), 775-803.

Crismond, D. P., & Adams, R. S. (2012). The informed design teaching & learning matrix. Journal of Engineering Education-Washington, 101(4), 738.

Purzer, Ş., Quintana‐Cifuentes, J., & Menekse, M. (2022). The honeycomb of engineering framework: Philosophy of engineering guiding precollege engineering education. Journal of Engineering Education, 111(1), 19-39.

Sternberg, R. J., Ehsan, H., & Ghahremani, M. (2022). Levels of Teaching Science to Gifted Students. Roeper Review, 44(4), 198-211.

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Presenters

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Shane Duo
The Hill School
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Dr. Hoda Ehsan
Director of Engineering and Design
The Hill School
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Sam Rhinehart
Math/Engineering Teacher
Christ School
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Ethan Ryu
The Hill School

Session specifications

Topic:

Innovative Learning, Making and Fabrication.

Grade level:

6-12

Audience:

Higher Ed, Teacher, Technology Coach/Trainer

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Laptop: PC

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

They would need Autodesk Fusion 360, which can be found here; https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview . It's free to sign up for educators and instructions on how to sign up can be found in our attendee resources that was attached earlier in the application.

Subject area:

Engineering, Technology Education

ISTE Standards:

For Educators:
Designer
  • Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
Facilitator
  • Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and/or computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.
  • Manage the use of technology and student learning strategies in digital platforms, virtual environments, hands-on makerspaces or in the field.

TLPs:

Develop Expertise, Ignite Agency

Additional detail:

Student presentation

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