Employment the Word Cloud in Brainstorming via the Web and Its Effectiveness in Developing the Design Thinking Skill

Design thinking skill is perhaps the most directly related thinking skill of mathematical thinking skill, because design thinking contains a strong problem-solving process in itself. In this study, it was aimed to provide students to avoid thinking about mathematics only procedurally or instrumentally and to introduce them to mathematical studying methods and mental habits. Therefore, tasks were chosen that would encourage students to think and design using real-life mathematical elements and thus encourage effective mathematical thinking. According to Freudenthal, the theorist of the Realistic Mathematics Education, mathematics should be related to the social life of students, close to their experiences, relevant to the society they live in, and compatible with human values. The research is designed as “action research” which is one of the qualitative research methods. Participants were selected using the convenience sampling method. Edmodo software was used as an electronic portfolio. Activities were prepared within the framework of RME approach. The responses are given by the students to those activities distributed when examined under 5 main headings: designing products, expressing the mathematical opinions clearly, using the mathematical knowledge, the research skills and the originality. These criteria generated after taking an expert opinion, subjected to qualitative analysis and interpreted. Consequently, it can be concluded that the educational process which is carried out with design-based activities provides learning, and is relevant to daily life, is interesting and is motivating. The integration of face-to-face teaching with technology and online approaches also help teachers manage design-based activities in a more effective way. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0785/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Competing through Meaning

Overcrowded ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262035361.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roberto Verganti

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Business Value ◽

The Other ◽

Know How ◽

Other Hand ◽

New Vision ◽

The One ◽

And Diffusion ◽

The Web

This chapter explores why innovation of meaning is relevant for businesses. Why it is a major differentiator. How does innovation of meaning create business value? Why is it relevant in current competition? And especially when is it relevant? What are the contextual drivers that lead to new meaning? When it is likely to occur? (I.e., when is it likely that in an industry a new vision succeeds, hopefully proposed by you rather than by a competitor?) This is due to two converging phenomena. On the one hand customers search for it (see above). On the other hand, only a few organizations know how to do it effectively. Firms have become extremely productive in generating ideas of solutions, especially thanks to the web and to creative methods such as design thinking. But the more ideas they create, the more they see a confused landscape in which they struggle to find a meaningful direction. In a way, the success and diffusion of problem solving is one of the major causes of its own loss of relevance, and of the prominence of innovation of meaning. Ideas are abundant. Meanings are rare. And value, in business, is in what’s rare.

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Recasting the Door: An Applied Design Thinking Skill Building Exercise

Management Teaching Review ◽

10.1177/2379298119825632 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 218-230

Author(s):

April J. Spivack

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Idea Generation ◽

Thinking Skill ◽

Art Installation ◽

Creative Art ◽

Creative Problem ◽

Applied Design ◽

Idea Evaluation ◽

Skill Building

Skills in creativity are needed to meet the needs of today’s organizations, and design thinking is a process that one can learn to become more creative. Yet the diminishing exposure to and pursuit of humanities courses, which have traditionally developed these skills, has put pressure on business schools to fill the gap. This experiential learning exercise, Recasting the Door, is directed toward undergraduate students and presents an opportunity for students to develop and practice design thinking and creative problem solving, especially when situated in a course on creativity or innovation. In this exercise, students work in teams to develop a creative art installation that physically transforms the instructor’s office door symbolically or metaphorically to serve a new purpose. Using an open-ended design brief, students use idea generation, idea evaluation, prototyping, and collaboration to develop a human-centered solution. Then they critique their own and other teams’ installations.

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Stark using Word Cloud

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.i7659.078919 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 1717-1720

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Web Application ◽

Visual Design ◽

Free Form ◽

Font Size ◽

Text Data ◽

Word Cloud ◽

Feature Engineering for Design Thinking Assessment

Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design ◽

10.1017/dsi.2019.396 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 3891-3900

Author(s):

Ryan Arlitt ◽

Sumbul Khan ◽

Lucienne Blessing

Keyword(s):

Skill Acquisition ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Thinking Skill ◽

Wide Audience ◽

Computational Tools ◽

Student Responses ◽

Before And After ◽

Text Features ◽

Study Student

AbstractAs design and design thinking become increasingly important competencies for a modern workforce, the burden of assessing these fuzzy skills creates a scalability bottleneck. Toward addressing this need, this paper presents an exploratory study into a scalable computational approach for design thinking assessment. In this study, student responses to a variety of contextualized design questions – gathered both before and after participation in a design thinking training course – are analyzed. Specifically, a variety of text features are engineered, tested, and interpreted within a design thinking framework in order to identify specific markers of design thinking skill acquisition. Key findings of this work include identification of text features that may enable scalable measurement of (1) user-centric language and (2) design thinking concept acquisition. These results contribute toward the creation of computational tools to ease the burden of providing feedback about design thinking skills to a wide audience.

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WEB MODUL IPA BERBASIS INKUIRI TERBIMBING UNTUK MENINGKATKAN THINKING SKILL

EDUSAINS ◽

10.15408/es.v12i1.11034 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 47-53

Author(s):

Agnesi Sekarsari Putri ◽

Nurfina Aznam

Keyword(s):

Effect Size ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Control Group ◽

Guided Inquiry ◽

Thinking Skill ◽

Control Group Design ◽

Size Category ◽

Electronic Learning ◽

Group Design

SCIENCE WEB MODULE BASED ON GUIDED INQUIRY TO IMPROVE THINKING SKILLAbstractThe science web module is a systematically structured teaching material to achieve electronic learning objectives using website applications in which writing, animation, video, and navigation are exciting, interactive, active, and motivating learning that can facilitate students' thinking skills. Guided inquiry is a model that trains students to be actively involved in investigations with questions raised by teachers to direct students to find concepts. Guided inquiry-based web modules are used to improve students' thinking skills measured through written tests. This study uses a pretest-posttest control group design. Based on the results of the analysis using the Kruskal Wallis test, there are differences in the experimental class using the science web module based on guided inquiry and the control class using the science teaching materials commonly used by teachers. The results showed an increase in higher thinking skills in the experimental class than in the control class, resulting in the high effect size category so that the experimental class increased the thinking skills more effectively than the control class. AbstrakWeb modul IPA merupakan bahan ajar yang disusun sistematis untuk mencapai tujuan pembelajaran berbentuk elektronik menggunakan aplikasi website yang didalamnya terdapat tulisan, animasi, video, serta navigasi yang menjadi pembelajaran yang menarik, interaktif, aktif, dan memotivasi belajar yang dapat memfasilitasi thinking skill peserta didik. Inkuiri terbimbing merupakan model yang melatih peserta didik terlibat aktif dalam penyelidikan dengan pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang diajukan guru untuk mengarahkan peserta didik menemukan konsep. Web modul berbasos inkuiri terbimbing digunakan untuk meningkatkan thinking skill peserta didik. Penelitian ini menggunakan pretest posttest control group design. Thinking skill diukur melalui tes tertulis. Berdasarkan hasil analisis menggunakan uji Kruskal Wallis terdapat perbedaan kelas eksperimen yang menggunakan web modul IPA berbasis inkuiri terbimbing dengan kelas kontrol yang menggunakan bahan ajar IPA yang biasa digunakan guru. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan thinking skill yang lebih tinggi pada kelas eksperimen daripada kelas kontrol, dengan hasil effect size kategori tinggi, sehingga kelas eksperimen meningkatkan thinking skill yang lebih efektif daripada kelas kontrol.

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The Evolution of the Internet and Social Media: A Literature Review

International Journal of e-Education e-Business e-Management and e-Learning ◽

10.17706/ijeeee.2022.12.1.30-41 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 30-41

Author(s):

Charles Alves de Castro ◽

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Isobel O’Reilly ◽

Aiden Carthy ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Cluster Analysis ◽

Literature Review ◽

The Internet ◽

Electronic Journal ◽

Word Cloud ◽

Technological Developments ◽

Media Channels ◽

The Web ◽

Internet And Social Media

This article reviews and analyses factors impacting the evolution of the internet, the web, and social media channels, charting historic trends and highlight recent technological developments. The review comprised a deep search using electronic journal databases. Articles were chosen according to specific criteria with a group of 34 papers and books selected for complete reading and deep analysis. The 34 elements were analysed and processed using NVIVO 12 Pro, enabling the creation of dimensions and categories, codes and nodes, identifying the most frequent words, cluster analysis of the terms, and creating a word cloud based on each word's frequency. The review presents updated information about technological trends, marketing, and chronological elements regarding the evolution of the internet and social media.

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