Can you transform you lesson plans with design briefs?
Summary
TLDRIn this educational video, Alex Gr introduces a method to engage students in real-world learning through design briefs. He demonstrates how to use AI to create a design brief that integrates key concepts and skills from a subject area, taking the example of pharmaceutical delivery systems. The video guides through defining a problem, generating a solution, and creating an assessment rubric, all while emphasizing the potential for co-creation and collaboration in project-based learning.
Takeaways
- 🎥 The video is an introduction to a channel focused on professional development, featuring Alex Gr.
- 🎓 Alex Gr discusses the use of design briefs to engage students in real-world learning experiences.
- 📝 A design brief is defined as a problem or challenge for students to solve, including a clear problem statement, target audience, constraints, and success criteria.
- 🤖 The video demonstrates how to use AI, specifically chat GPT, to generate a design brief that aligns with curriculum standards.
- 👕 A humorous anecdote about a coffee spill leads to a quick wardrobe change, adding a personal touch to the video.
- 🔍 Alex Gr emphasizes the importance of selecting real-world problems or scenarios that connect with learning outcomes for creating effective design briefs.
- 💡 The video provides a step-by-step guide to creating a design brief, including defining the problem, solution, evaluation criteria, and available resources.
- 🛑 The concept of co-creation is introduced, suggesting that students could be involved in selecting problems or creating parts of the rubric.
- 📈 The video explores the idea of using design briefs for both short tasks and longer projects, adapting the brief's complexity to the time frame.
- 📊 A rubric or set of assessment guidelines is suggested for peer assessment, which can be condensed for shorter tasks.
- 🔑 The power of AI is highlighted as a tool to easily generate and customize design briefs that support diverse learners.
Q & A
What is the main topic of Alex's first official video for the Deep Professional channel?
-The main topic is exploring how design briefs can engage students in meaningful real-world learning experiences and how to create a design brief using AI.
What does Alex plan to demonstrate in the video?
-Alex plans to demonstrate how to create a design brief using AI, showing its ease and effectiveness in the classroom.
What is a design brief according to the script?
-A design brief presents a problem or challenge for students to solve, including a clear problem statement, a target audience, constraints, and success criteria.
How does a design brief differ from traditional learning outcomes?
-Unlike traditional learning outcomes that focus on specific skills and knowledge, a design brief encourages students to think creatively, critically, and collaboratively to develop solutions.
What is the International Classroom Podcast that Alex mentions?
-The International Classroom Podcast is a project that has kept Alex busy and inspired the upcoming videos on the Deep Professional channel.
What AI tool does Alex plan to use to generate the design brief?
-Alex plans to use GPT 4, specifically Chat GPT, to generate the design brief.
How does Alex suggest using the AI-generated problems or scenarios?
-Alex suggests using the AI-generated problems or scenarios to help generate the actual problem for the design brief.
What is the example real-world problem or scenario that Alex chooses for the design brief?
-Alex chooses 'Pharmaceutical Delivery Systems' as the real-world problem or scenario for the design brief.
What components make up a design brief according to the script?
-The components of a design brief include the problem definition, solution description, evaluation criteria, available resources, design tone, and potential collaborations.
How does Alex suggest modifying the AI-generated brief for different classroom needs?
-Alex suggests that teachers can modify the AI-generated brief by incorporating or removing certain elements such as hints or parts to consider, depending on the needs of the students and the curriculum.
What is the purpose of creating a 30-minute task based on the design brief?
-The purpose is to condense the design brief into a shorter task that can be completed within a single class period, allowing students to engage with the material in a time-efficient manner.
How does Alex propose to assess the students' work on the design brief?
-Alex proposes using a rubric or set of assessment guidelines for peer assessment, which can be generated by AI and then potentially co-created with the students.
What is the concept of co-creation that Alex refers to?
-Co-creation is the idea of involving students in the creation of their learning tasks, such as choosing aspects of the rubric or deciding on the focus areas for their work, to enhance engagement and ownership of the learning process.
How does Alex suggest leveraging AI to support all learners in the classroom?
-Alex suggests using AI to generate and customize design briefs that align with the curriculum, allowing for a flexible and inclusive approach to learning that meets the needs of all students.
Outlines
🎓 Introduction to Design Briefs in Education
In the first paragraph, Alex introduces the concept of design briefs as a tool for engaging students in real-world learning experiences. He explains that unlike traditional learning outcomes, design briefs present a problem or challenge for students to solve, which encourages creative, critical, and collaborative thinking. Alex demonstrates how to create a design brief aligned with curriculum standards using AI, specifically mentioning GPT 4, and shares his process of generating a brief based on learning outcomes related to pharmaceutical delivery systems.
🛠 Crafting a Design Brief with AI Assistance
The second paragraph delves deeper into the process of using AI to craft a design brief. Alex outlines the components of a design brief, which include a problem definition, solution description, evaluation criteria, available resources, design tone, and potential collaborations. He then focuses on creating a brief for a pharmaceutical delivery system, emphasizing the importance of aligning the brief with learning outcomes and providing a clear goal for students. Alex also discusses the possibility of modifying the brief for different levels of support or challenge, and the idea of co-creation with students, which is a concept he learned from his podcast guest, Jason Giulia.
📊 Transforming Design Briefs for Shorter Tasks
In the third paragraph, Alex explores the practical application of design briefs in the classroom, particularly in the context of shorter tasks or lessons. He considers the feasibility of using design briefs as a replacement or supplement to traditional learning outcomes for a 30-minute task. Alex uses AI to generate a concise version of the brief and a corresponding rubric for peer assessment, which could be used to evaluate student work. He also touches on the idea of co-creation in the development of the rubric, allowing students to have a say in what they are assessed on, thereby enhancing their engagement and metacognitive skills.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Design Briefs
💡Real-World Learning Experiences
💡AI (Artificial Intelligence)
💡Learning Outcomes
💡Co-Creation
💡Project-Based Learning
💡Rubric
💡Metacognition
💡Collaboration
💡Critical Analysis
💡Scaffolding
Highlights
Introduction of the concept of design briefs as an alternative to traditional learning outcomes.
Design briefs encourage creative, critical, and collaborative thinking to solve problems.
A design brief includes a clear problem statement, target audience, constraints, and success criteria.
Using AI to generate a design brief that aligns with curriculum standards.
The process of defining key concepts and skills from a subject area for the AI to generate content.
Incorporating real-world scenarios into the design brief to enhance relevance and engagement.
The idea of co-creation in education, allowing students to have a say in their learning tasks.
An example of creating a design brief for pharmaceutical delivery systems.
The importance of defining the problem and solution within a design brief.
Inclusion of evaluation criteria, available resources, and design tone in a design brief.
The potential for students to pick their own real-world problems to solve, fostering ownership of learning.
Transforming a design brief into a 30-minute task for classroom use.
Utilizing AI tools for sketching and illustrating ideas within the design brief.
Creating a rubric for peer assessment to enhance the collaborative learning experience.
The concept of co-creating a rubric with students to focus on specific skills or characteristics.
Metacognitive aspects of allowing students to choose areas for development within a design brief.
Encouraging students to utilize AI for ideation and feedback within the design process.
A call to action for educators to try using design briefs in their classrooms and observe the impact.
Transcripts
now recently we've been watching
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this and it got me thinking can briefs
be better than learning
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outcomes hey everyone and welcome to the
new channel my name is Alex gr and this
is deep professional and this is
actually my first official video for the
Channel having created get at the start
of this year and that's because of this
little thing called the international
classroom podcast that's been keeping me
pretty busy now actually I'll put the
link in for the Pod here and I say that
because these upcoming videos are
inspired by the conversations I've had
with guests and I want to show you how
I've taken the learnings from them into
my classroom now in today's video we're
going to explore how design briefs can
engage your students in meaningful Real
World Learning experiences I'm going to
walk you through an example of creating
a design brief using AI so you can see
just how easy and effective it can be so
let's get started first we need to
Define what a design brief is now unlike
traditional learning outcomes which
often focus on specific skills and
knowledge a design brief presents a
problem or challenge for students to
solve includes a clear problem statement
a target audience constraints and
success criteria so design briefs
encourage students to think creatively
critically and collaboratively to
develop Solutions now you might be
wondering how to create design brief
that still aligns with your curriculum
standards don't worry about it it's
easier than you think and I'm going to
show you how to use AI to generate a
design brief that incorporates the key
Concepts and skills from your subject
area yeah there's been a quick quick
t-shirt change very simply because um
managed to spill some of this down my
top um whilst I was getting things
sorted um so hence quick t-shirt
change simply because it's a white
T-shirt with coffee on it decaffeinated
coffee by the way um not great not great
and it was hot so what we've got here in
front of us I'm going to use uh GPT 4 so
I'm going to use chat GPT though this
can work on Claude it can work on Gemini
whichever one you're happy with now what
I'm going to do is I've taken a screen
grab of the learning outcomes for the
lesson I'm using you can type them in
you can type some of them in can type
all of them in but I find I'm just going
to put all of them in and then work with
chat gbt to help generate the content
that I
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want
now that's there what I've actually
found best for this to do is rather than
go straight into asking for the problem
straight into asking for the solution
what I'm going to ask it to do is I'm
going to ask it to pick out five
potential real world problems or real
world scenarios that would connect with
these learning outcomes and it's those
that I'm going to use to help generate
the actual problem for the design brief
all right so there's a couple of good
things about this now one I'm going to
going to do in this one is I'm purely
focusing I'm going to take one of those
and I'm going to write the design brief
for this and I'm going to give that to
the students but based on some of the
conversations I have had most notably
the podcast I've got at the moment with
Jason gulia and the link is up there he
talks a lot about co-creation so I'm
going to mention it here for this first
part I'm not going to do anything it
would be in another video potentially
but what you could do with this is you
could give students the actual five
different ones and let them pick and
that way when it comes to then the task
when it comes to as we'll see shortly
the actual rubric they're co-creating
and having a say over what they're doing
for this one I'm going to pick out I'm
going to go with pharmaceutical Delivery
Systems I'm going to use that to create
the problem and then obviously think
about the
solution so there are lots of different
components that make up a design brief
so you will have the problem
definition you've got then a solution
description you've got an evaluation
criteria you've got available resources
a design tone and then potential
collaborations so with this one all I'm
going to be focusing on is just coming
up with in step by step I don't want to
give it too much to start with i to make
sure I'm happy with each part make sure
we're happy with each part um and then
go from there so what we've got in front
of us is so we've got our brief task
chemical and physical properties okay
goal is design an Innovative drug
delivery system that demonstrates an
understanding of those factors overcomes
current limitations problem with
challenge you to create so we've got
that there and to some extent it
automatically highlights the solution
anyway but it's taken on board our real
world scenario and it's given us a brief
for students to work with and now what's
good about this is if it's just purely
me I can probably take some of it and
obviously that's and not use all of it
so I don't have to necessarily use the
bits that I'm highlighting out here in
terms of the hints that it's giving or
parts to consider I could use those if I
was to modify it so if I was offering
support or scaffolding I might
incorporate those if I wanted to add
stretch and challenge I might take those
out and offer something different
instead um let's just see now what type
of solution it can come up
with and within this we've got obviously
describing the solution the design
project will provide including scope and
deliverables see how it does with that
now there's other things you could put
into that if you want to have a timeline
if you using a budget but for this
keeping it in class let's see what it
can come up
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with
okay so what we've got in front of us
then again we've got an actual
description of
it uh we meticulously engineered to
enhance the efficiency of drug
transportation to Target sales and you
could leave it at that depending on the
class that you've got um we've got a
scope in terms of things that we might
want it to incorporate we've got
deliverables again don't have to
incorporate those you could take it out
of the prompt if you really wanted to if
it's too much depending on the age group
of students that you're working with
um so we've got a brief we can use and
we've now got a solution in terms of
what students are aiming to and we can
amalgamate those two things together now
here's the thing with it most of these
and of the people I've spoke to when we
talking about Project based learning and
we're talking about obviously utilizing
briefs with that the task in itself is
often for you know a couple of weeks it
might be for like 10 lessons I want to
know can I use design briefs briefs like
this to replace or to work alongside
learning outcomes so you've seen the
learning outcomes at the top now that
would be for a 60-minute lesson and I
know having taught that I can get that
done in 60 minutes so let's see if now
we can take this and actually transform
it into some form of 30 minute
task let's see what it comes up
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with
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that's pretty good just you've got a
sketch handr on sketch simple digital
illustration I know there's people out
there so again drawing on the expertise
I've had from let's say Aaron and Ben
from the inventor Club talking about
using Ai and different sort of sketch to
image um and there's a few other ones
out there that can use these these AI
tools that can do that so that could
work in quite nicely
a brief written description of how the
system delivers the drug perfect crtical
critical analysis bullet point list
potential challenges and benefits yet
collaborative divide roles among team
members so again that would work for 30
minutes you gave them the brief you
could actually do a little bit of
teaching in there tap them through it
and then give them this 30 minute task
which would be quite good in terms of
getting them to to go through those
characteristics but we're not done yet
with that so we've got our brief we've
got a problem we've got a solution what
we now want from this is some form of
rubric or set of assessment guidelines
or something like that so if they were
peer assessing which is what we want to
get them to they could utilize these in
the lesson so we're asking we are
extending this idea of
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collaboration
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oh
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all right so we've got it there now
again if you were working on a two 3
week project and it was over 10 12
lessons and you could have all that
perfect but we're not again our
challenge is can we condense this down
into a 30 minute task so let's now see
if it can take that and condense it down
into form of of rubric to be used for
sort of a short peer
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assessment
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okay and it's G us some ideas about a
ticker a plus double
plus some discussion
points so there's some ideas in there
and it might be you know what you don't
need to use it it could just be that you
take one or two of those points and so
when the move moving around students
have something to help with ideation and
feedback because those are also key
things they can use with AI and use with
each other actually um which could work
out really nicely don't have to use it
at all or and this ties back into this
concept of co-creation you could
actually highlight some areas and for
different for students so you could give
out a list of five or six different
characteristics or skills that you
looking to develop within that that uh
part of time or even within the
curriculum that unit and you allow
students to actually choose and then
co-create a rubric with you or just like
a part of the rubric to do with it and
they could do that so that we know that
we're focusing on and they could have
those discussions about I don't know the
critical thinking or their design or the
implementation of the science or
something along those lines whichever
part you wanted to incorporate but it
gives a real sense of co-creation and
easily to do with AI and students are
picking and choosing the areas they want
to work on so it's great just bringing
in metacognitive as well um but
something to think about as we move
forward and there you have it a crash
course in using design briefs to create
engaging authentic learning experiences
for your students and by leveraging the
power of AI you can easily generate and
customize design briefs that align with
your curriculum and support all Learners
give it a try in your own classroom and
see the impact for yourself if you have
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