Title: The CILT Design Principles Database: A New Form of Synthesis for Technologybased Curriculum Design
1The CILT Design Principles DatabaseA New Form
of Synthesis for Technology-based Curriculum
Design
- CILTs Design theme team Discussant
- Yael Kali, Michele Spitulnik, Marcia Linn Nora
Sabelli
.
2Synthesis A Growing Need
- Numerous technology-based learning environments.
- The knowledge and experience of designing such
environments is distributed. - Design experiments outcomes include tacit
knowledge gained through the iterative process of
design. - There is a growing need for synthesizing this
tacit knowledge, to make it useful for future
designs.
3Issues concerning design principles and Solutions
in the database
- Issue 1 Connectedness
- Issue 2 Grain-size level
- Issue 3 Limits, Tradeoffs, Pitfalls
- Issue 4 Where to Start?
- Issue 5 Importance of Discussions
4Issues Solutions
- Publishing in the database requires connecting.
Interface encourages connecting to others
entries.
- Issue 1 Connectedness
- Design Principles are meaningful only when
anchored with example software features (and vice
versa).
5Provide a Visual Overview for the Inquiry Process
Connection 1 WISE inquiry map
http//wise.berkeley.edu/
6Provide a Visual Overview for the Inquiry Process
Connection 2 Legacy cycle
http//peabody.vanderbilt.edu/ctrs/ltc/brophys/leg
acy1.html
7Provide a Visual Overview for the Inquiry Process
Connection 3 Symphony inquiry wheel
http//hi-ce.org/teacherworkroom/software/symphony
8Issues Solutions
- Issue 2 Grain-size level
- Need to be specific enough to guide new designs
but general enough to cut across contexts.
9Issue 2 Grain-Size Level
Meta-Principle
Help Students Learn from Each Other
Design Principle
Collaboration Requires Common anchors
Scaffold the Development of Classroom Norms
Combine offline small-group discussion with
online larger group discussion
WISE
SCOPE
Feature Rationale
SMILE
10Issues Solutions
- Issue 3 Limits, Tradeoffs, Pitfalls
- When does a Design Principle stop working?
- What do you gain and what do you lose when
designing with the DP? - How can others avoid your mistakes?
11Issue 3 Limits, Tradeoffs, Pitfalls
Design Principle
Provide dynamic visual aids for perception of 3D
phenomena
Possible pitfall Dont forget to encourage
students to create mental images
Feature
SMILE
12Issues Solutions
- Issue 4
- Where to Start?
- Features ? Principles?
- Principles ? Features?
- The database allows different entry points for
connecting data
13Issues Solutions
- Issue 5
- Enabling Discussions
- Public discussions about design principles are
at least as valuable as the principles
themselves.
- The database connects each entry (Feature,
Principle, Meta principle, Connection), to a
discussion within the database.
14Future directions
- Add Data Online Workshops
- Establish an editorial board
- Initiate public discussions
- Highlight controversies
- Merge, connect discriminating between ideas
- Widen the audience
- Teachers
- Graduate students
- Improve Application
- Research