Chalk Lab
UX Case study
What is Chalk Lab ?
We are a group of designers working on providing the design as an education. We are planning to conduct 3 months on online design .In ,chalk lab we are gonna teach students from 6-14 age group .The course taught is creative design , In creative design we are going to teach about creativity , understanding and social skill values .At first we will accept you as an intern and trainee . From the course various skills will be developed like skill sets – communication, innovation and problem solving .The whole curriculum is based on activity based learning . Career development programs and projecting projects in social will bring even more exposure .
RESEARCH & METHODOLOGY
We are a group of designers working on providing the design as an education. We are planning to conduct 3 months on online design .In ,chalk lab we are gonna teach students from 6-14 age group .The course taught is creative design , In creative design we are going to teach about creativity , understanding and social skill values .At first we will accept you as an intern and trainee . From the course various skills will be developed like skill sets – communication, innovation and problem solving .The whole curriculum is based on activity based learning . Career development programs and projecting projects in social will bring even more exposure .
Goal
1 year design syllabus for Arumbakkam area students
Target People
- 6 th to 9th Std
- Government and Private school kids
- Arumbakkam 10km surroundings
Primary Research
To understand the problem we did primary research.
The idea is about asking answers to the questions based on design
Questions are
- 1. What is Design ?
- 2. What is education?
- 3. What is design education?
- 4. Why design education ?
- 5. Why design for all ?
- 6. We had activity based learning. Why is it needed then ?
- 7. If design just problem solving interested people can just learn as course why as
- 8. Whose your target group ?
- 9. Why 2nd student will learn same as 8th std student ?
- 10. Design education system Change or just method change or just content change ?
- 11. What he/she l get outcome of this ?
- 12. Design just a process ?
- 13. What will u teach in design ?
Primary Research Result
As a result of primary we gathered lots of information about design, education design education, etc. and we also ended up with few questions.
- Strategy of academic design student experience
- Need to work on how to identify the student activity In future based on capacity or interest ?
- Are we going to include teachers? are you going to teach them design method. whose going teach the subject.?
Secondary Research
With the information gathered from primary research we started our secondary research by understanding the problem. We continued our research on following topics.
- Design books
- Existing syllabus
- Design school
- Innovative schools
- Teachers interview
- Target people
- Students
- Teacher
- Parents
- Expert
User interview question goal
Second step of secondary research is to conduct users interviews. Here users means students, teachers & parents. Through brainstorming section conducted with our team, we listed the goals that has to be achieved through user interview
- Need to teach Life skill
- Education equality
- Professional based learning
- Practical learning
- Political, Social
- Technology
- Management Need to different to know all sector
- Need to have updated content
- Need to give time for learning Based on kids capability
User Interview Questions
Student
Do you aware of climate change ?
If you/all don’t understand anything what will you do?
Whether the teaching method understandable to each and every students?
If 10 students stuck in any concept at a time did the teacher explain them all?
In which way does the teacher explain the concept ?
Tell me any recent political,social,technology problem?
Do you feel have you learn updated content?
What changes you want to do in your current education system
Do you go through the activities during free time ?
What is your favorite teacher ? why do you like ?
Do you feel bored learning same topics ?
Teachers
Do you teach about climate change ?
If they don’t understand anything what will you do?
Do you know student ambition?
Did you give any professional (orientation) training?
In which way you explain the concept (smart class,activity)?
Are they know any recent political,social,technology problem?
Do you feel you teach updated content?
What changes you want to do in your current education system?
Do you teach through activity base learning ?
What is your expectation from students outcome ?
How do you make the class energetic when you teach difficult topics ?
Do you think ICT keeps students safe from internet ? Can they go wrong direction using the internet ?
User Interview Insights
We conducted interview with students, teachers and parents. During the interview process few follow up question are also asked to know more about the problem.The collected informations are categorised as pain points and needs
Pain points
- Vast portion , no simplified content
- No need of systematic teaching , Memorization memory old technique , Remove rote learning
- Don't know how to involve students, Content is more
Target People
- Being close with students , Interaction students and more visual learning
- Concept orient
Chalk Lab
6-13 age groups State council of educational research and Training
Group 1: Nursery, L.K.G 1-2
Group 2: Class 3-5
Group 3: class 6-8
Happy class curriculum Syllabus
Exploring Happiness through Learning and Awareness
M1: KNOWING MY NEEDS
M2: HARMONY IN THE SELF
M3: HAPPINESS MY GOAL
M4: WHY EDUCATION
Experiencing Happiness in Relationships through Feelings
M5: HOW SIMILAR ARE WE
M6: HARMONY IN RELATIONSHIPS
M7: UNDERSTANDING VALUES IN RELATIONSHIPS
M8: COOPERATION AND COLLABORATIVE LIVING
Happiness through Active Participation
M9: LIVING IN AN INTERCONNECTED SOCIETY
M10: COEXISTING WITH NATURE
Methodology
- Joyful exercises
- Indoor games
- Active enquiry
- Reflective conversations
- Storytelling
- Guided practices for mindfulness
- Group Discussions
- Role-play/skits on situations
- Presentations
- Activities
Questions
- How we educate people about your course
- How we are going to promote
- 6-9 , 10 to 14 age traineee will have sepearte content ?
- What is the end goal 3 months
Answers
- Purpose -Skill development tittle creative design 2 classroom 5 min 10 max .For one day every Saturday
- Promotion call the members telling them advantage Instalive videos 1-2 mins google forms personal call .We decided to call and go live . Admission process google forms .
- What are we gonna teach content educating guide Just an idea Report behaviour, Every Friday one week obersvation .
- How to connect 6-9 /10-11 age groups with content .10 -11 stall bus should be framed - project Orient
Parents Guide
- Creativity , understanding and social skill value
- Students community
- Trainee - internship
- Student council
- Behavioural card
- Skill set - communication , innovation problem solving
- Career development
- Independent classroom
- Activity based learning
- Student gallery
Promotions
Live social media( insta , fb , website) -Namratha – alternative morning status updated.
Google forms ( tamil & english internship agreement ) need to attach in youtube.
Video – Gomathi 2 mins.
Youtube link- tittle and end card Arjunlingam upload – kavya
Parents guide – (tamil,english )
Design Challenge
In ancient times, education was not accessible to common people. As decades passed by, education has become the primary necessity for a child. But now, equal education has become interrogative as a matter of quality in the prevailing situation. To address this issue we have taken up Design Education in Government Schools. It took 8 months for us to reach this place. A complete teamwork and ideology to endeavor the design education to people living in the interior parts. This time, we have taken tools like Design thinking to solve 10 different problems around us. And students were trained through design with skills like problem-solving,
leadership quality, Teamwork, Innovative Thinking, Perpetual thought-provoking and also selfrealization of creative confidence.
Thank you each and everyone who supported, donated, given opportunity, made content, volunteered, motivated us throughout. We are glad to inform that ChalkPiece is stepping into next Level. We are coming live on 10th February ( Monday) to elaborate the further process.
