Location, context, time, and duration
Sketchpad tablet is one of the tools that allow students to quickly draw and upload the sketches of their ideas in digital form. Sketchpad is useful for teaching and learning approaches such as design thinking, where ideation is one of the stages. Thus, UNITEN organized the 6th instructor training program titled “Ideate, Draw, Share! Sketchpad for Collaborative Design Thinking”. The training was conducted on April 12th, 2023 9.00am to 12.00pm at the Design Thinking Lab, Advanced Learning, Information Resource Centre, UNITEN.
Participants
The session was attended by 5 UNITEN course instructors. UNITEN planned to conduct the same training for students in the near future.
Description of activities
The half-day event consisted of instructors being introduced to the sketchpad tool and practice on how to draw. The activities helped instructors to make ideation activities more interesting.
Feedback and web presence
Instructors shared their experiences and feedback using the sketchpad tools. The tools were friendly to non-IT savvy person and can enhance the ideation stage of design thinking.