Students as Designers Part 3

We are continuing with our Project Runway - industry behind the runway project series. Due to the first round of presentations that were "death by powerpoint"...I tried to do a better job of modelling what could make them more creative at their attempt to be designers. This time, during this challenge, they needed to create a flyer. I created a template for them to fill in with prompt questions. I showed them how picture says a 1000 words. Therefore rather than giving "text book" defninitions - I wanted them to understand the concept well enough to answer the question and provide a "picture" that would answer the question. This allowed the students to "design" a flyer that would communicate valuable information by using visual language - a mixture of words and pictures. This approach was much more successful! Students were more "original" and "creative". They appeared to undersand the concepts much better than the previous unit. Less memorization and definitions and more interpretation and application. Getter better:)