Design thinking and Comic Life in Education

There is something to be said about ‘Design thinking’. I am always in awe of people who can solve problems and uncover new solutions effortlessly while I try to brainstorm ‘new ideas’. This week’s blog is all about design thinking and a technology called Comic Life, a resource that teachers can use in the classroom to support students to think ‘outside the box’ and capture their ideas in a unique fashion.

What is Design thinking?

Design thinking is defined by Bower (2017) as capturing and collecting evidence, as well as sharing ideas. Design thinking is ordinarily a way of thinking and working that helps us to solve problems. Using technology, students can create or design impressive solutions.

Comic Life

To those unfamiliar, Comic Life is a photo comic software, a creative tool for visual storytelling that turns photos and images into a comic. It is free online and comes as an App and makes designing accessible to almost anyone. Comic life features simples click and upload pictures; it is suitable for all students and helps to create full comic strips using pre-loaded templates.

Used in the classroom, Comic Life can create an engaging experience for students to learn in an interactive and fun way across multiple subjects. Comic life can be used to help students demonstrate their understanding of a concept. Additionally, in English, students can use comic strips to inspire linguistic expression and foster creative thinking. A great way for teachers to prepare students as successful future citizens is to create opportunities for students to problem solve and express their creativity through open-ended tasks (Bekker. et al., 2015).

There are a range of features in Comic Life that support students in Design thinking. The ‘Inspector Toolbar’ has nine tabs, providing options for a different lettering and image filters. Here, student can design, test and iterate which is central to the design thinking process. Comic Life allows students to create several samples and after arriving at a potential design, they can sight instant visual feedback. Students can then analyse their ideas and find solutions to organisation before spending too much time on any one idea.

Using Comic Life can add many benefits in the classroom, it can support student engagement while also helping students express themselves. The teacher’s approach to introducing Comic Life in the classroom is critical to support deeper understanding.

Education

It is the range of features in Comic Life that support students in Design thinking. The ‘Inspector Tool bar’ has nine tabs, providing options for different script, lettering and image filters. After arriving at a potential design students can have immediate feedback and can visually analyse to find solutions to organising their ideas.

Used in the classroom Comic life can create engaging experience for students to learn in an interactive and fun way, comic life can help students demonstrate their understanding of a concept, while exercising linguistic expression and fostering creative thinking . In English, students can use comic strips to inspire