Part B: Critical Reflection

Designing Spaces for Learning (INF536) has been a very interesting and challenging course. I’ve been taken out of my comfort zone but also found common ground with design approaches and how I use them every day as a classroom teacher. I feel like I brought my strength of knowledge in early childhood education to meet my new learning about design processes head-on. It has left me with agreeing with the phrase that “Design has become too important to be left to designers” (Brown & Katz, 2011, p. 381). Kelley’s TEDtalk (2012) about creative confidence opened Read More …

Pre-Reflection blog INF536

One thing I wish I did in my first course, INF530 Concepts and Practices for a Digital Age, was to fo a pre-reflective post about my current understandings and knowledge in regards to the learning I am about to undertake. Hopefully, this will help me find a baseline and make my future learning reflections with more authenticity. It is coming a bit late as we are 2 weeks in (thanks to lack of Wifi connection in the Philippines) however, better late than never 🙂 My 2nd course for this degree is INF536 Designing Spaces for Read More …