by Stefanie Panke & Thilo Harth
Stefanie Panke University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, panke@email.unc.edu Dr. Stefanie Panke is an educational technology specialist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is native German and holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Literature from the University of Bielefeld, which she completed in 2012 with summa cum laude. Her research interests comprise social media, informal learning, open educational resources, and design thinking. As social media coordinator for AACE she is responsible for the blog AACE Review. Stefanie is an adjunct professor for teacher education at the Asian University for Women. She also teaches Web Science at Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Design Thinking at Münster University of Applied Sciences.
Thilo Harth. Fachhochschule MÃnster. Germany thilo.harth@fh-muenster.de Prof. Dr. phil. Thilo Harth is the academic head of didactics at Wandelwerk, the Center for Quality Development at FH Münster. In this role, he focuses on developing and implementing innovative teaching methods that target both the professional and personal individual competencies of students. His commitment and achievements in teaching were recognized in 2021 with the Bologna Prize from FH Münster. This award honors exceptional commitment and accomplishments in teaching.
Since 2018, the presenters have co-organized annual student-centered workshops with creative, playful pedagogies in preservice teacher education with a focus on vocational education and training (VET), as well as training events for faculty and staff, and ideation sessions for research clusters. The presentation offers the highlights of the past six years of this transnational collaboration, and will provide pedagogical examples that traverse three domains:
– Design thinking is a mindset and facilitation technique for addressing wicked problems. It confronts stakeholders with their preconceived notions of organizational issues or initiatives and fosters the shared understanding of problem scope as well as haptic representations of crucial components that are difficult to conceptualize.
– Lego Serious Play (LSP) is an open-source moderation method that uses Lego bricks to facilitate strategic planning, team building, problem-solving, and creative expression.
– Maker pedagogy is an educational approach that emphasizes hands-on, creative learning through designing and building projects. Students build confidence by building things. By focusing on the process of creation and experimentation rather than flawless outcomes, this approach helps students embrace mistakes as learning opportunities and appreciate the value of spontaneity.