Application of Innovative Board Games for Teaching Design to School Children: Exploring the Possibilities
摘要
Today, design education is crucial at all levels, including schools. Design has been a common core topic in many schools’ curricula. However, as design encourages actual application above theoretical explanations, teaching it to students creates a distinct problem. Hence to address such issue, innovative approach used to be practiced in many schools. The use of innovative board games as a teaching tool is one such creative and innovative approach. These board games give students an engaging way to explore design concepts while having fun. These games have the ability to increase children’s conceptual barriers by offering difficult scenarios and encouraging problem-solving mindsets throughout gaming. They help students navigate challenging, real-world issues by encouraging critical thinking, design thinking, and the development of innovative solutions. From mathematics and language arts to history and science, these games can be adeptly tailored to diverse subjects, creating a rich, multidisciplinary learning experience. They resemble the design process by giving fast feedback and promoting creative thinking. Design education has been made more entertaining and memorable through gamification. This paper discusses few of such creative and innovative board games which may be very effective in design pedagogy. Further, the paper also tried to explore the possibility of proposing a framework to implement such board games as part of the school curriculum for universal use.