Experimental Teaching Kit Design & Prototype for metaLAB at Harvard
metaLAB Project Team
Matthew Battles
Krystelle Denis
Melissa Marshall
Jeffrey Schnapp
Creative Direction & Design
Melissa Marshall
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Experimental Teaching as Design Practice was a one-day workshop supported by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. The workshop convened stakeholders in experimental teaching for a day of conversation and rapid prototyping. Participants collectively surfaced critical and creative questions and propositions in the field, bringing design thinking to bear in the process.
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Through this project we explored the idea of a portable experimental teaching kit which might contain an informational 24 x 36” poster, an interactive create-your-classroom-manifesto poster, and a deck of cards which would act as an design-thinking card game framed around experimental pedagogy.
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