Design Thinking

The Professor Garfield team recently hosted design thinking workshops—a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. These workshops were formed with...

New Year, New Team!

The current Professor Garfield Team includes individuals from diverse academic backgrounds. Together, the team works collaboratively to research and develop resources for K-5 educators to effectively teach a wide range of digital literacy concepts and technologies....

Professor Garfield: Then and Now

Brief Background The Professor Garfield Digital Literacy project grew from research suggesting that K-5 educators lack the resources they need to effectively teach digital literacy. Additionally, few resources exist that provide educators with a clear definition of...

Activity Storyboarding

This week, the PGF team started brainstorming how students and teachers can give feedback and comments on other students' completed assignments and began prototyping out the storyboards for multiple Digital Literacy activities. The team looked to other common...

Preliminary Lesson Plans and Website Updates

In week three of the semester the Professor Garfield team worked on designing several prototypes, combining exercise activities into curriculum unit packages, reviewing the previous PGF team’s exercise activities and structure, and redesigning the layout of...

Lesson Plan and Curriculum Unit Prototyping

The Professor Garfield Foundation (PGF) project team reviewed previously conducted research that focused on discovering the necessary components when mapping out curriculum units and lesson plans that are easy and useful to educators in the classroom. The research was...

Sign Up to Be a Beta Tester

Professors and students from the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development at Ball State University are working with K-3 teachers and students across the country to develop digital literacy curricula and exercises that will work for you.

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