Big Ideas and Competencies

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Big Ideas

  • Design cycle is an ongoing reflective process
  • Personal design choices require self-exploration, collaboration, evaluation and refinement of skills
  • Design and content can influence the lives of others

Competencies

  • Applied design: understanding context, defining points of view, ideating, prototyping, testing, making, and sharing
  • Applied skills: identify the skills needed for specific projects
  • Applied technology: choose the appropriate tools and technologies to use for tasks