Feb 06 2008
NCLB leaves Designers Behind . . . . .
<via glass> This is from the design blog A Brief Message by Dan Saffer. The salient paragraph reads:
While certainly facts and basic grammar and math are important, so is the ability to put those pieces of information together into something that is more than the sum of its parts, which is exactly what designers do.
We take raw materials and shape them into something new. This is not what American children are learning, and they should be.
This got me to thinking about a side interest that I am developing–that of design. Granted I never really had an interest in how things looked, or what gave them their visual appeal until being an adult. Even now, it isn’t quite in my system the way I see it in other folks. Still, with NCLB, this post got me to thinking–how many of our students are ‘design oriented’ in their work? How many would get a kick out of watching a film like Helvetica, a film about a font? That’s what went through my mind as I read this post. It does make one consider these things, for sure.
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This seems to tie into a meme I was sent recently. Perhaps you’d like to join in the Passion Quilt with a visual representation what you are passionate about/ what you want your students to learn. I tagged you. Click on the link for the details.