Collaborate to Design for Change
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” Dr. Seuss:
This year BScEd third year students participated in a module called Collaborate to Design for Change. As part of the module they participated in a Massive On-line Open Course aka a MOOC. This was part of a European Project on collaborative learning called Co-Lab http://colab.eun.org in partnership with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). The Design for Change (DfC) challenge was the second element of the module. DfC was started in India and has become a global movement http://www.dfcworld.com. This aspect of the work was facilitated by Development Educator, Ms. Tara McGrath. Students used the FIDS framework, Feel, Imagine, Do and Share. Students initially use ‘feel’ to put themselves in the shoes of people going through tough times, they then use ‘imagine’ to think of the perfect solution regarding the issue. After this they ‘do’ something to try to work towards that perfect solution, even if it is only a tiny step and finally they ‘share’ their idea with the world and try to make their theory and their project a reality.
On February 28th BScEd students got to present their learning at the Co-Lab Conference in Dublin Castle. All the supporting materials for the DfC module and the materials from the MOOC are available at the links above.
Pictured above at the Co-Lab conference in Dublin Castle : Kevin Foley, Shauna McGinley, Margaret Ward, Rebecca O’Meara, Dr Majella Dempsey, Cathal Dunne, Eoin O’Hara, Sadhbh O’Brien and Viola Pinzi from European Schoolnet.
Pictured above at the showcase event in Maynooth University below: Ms. Angela Rickard, Dr. Peter Robbins (EDEN Maynooth), Ms. Tara McGrath, Dr Majella Dempsey and Mr Ben Murray (NCCA)
Pictured above: Dominic Goodings and Kevin Fitzpatrick discussing their project at the end of Module Showcase event in December.