Students are launching into that next step in their journey. Thinking about it, you can almost envision the Life Launch Cycle, as students jump through the hoops of growth and graduation, making their way through all the important milestones: Kindergarten graduation, 5th grade graduation, 8th grade graduation, high school graduation, college commencement, to weddings, parenthood, and then their kid's own personal achievements. And the circle continues on.
Since life certainly seems to have a synchronicity, it seems just the right time to happen upon The Launch Cycle, a book by John Spencer and AJ Juliani about the Design Cycle in the K-12 classroom. On their website on the Books & Resource Tab, they have other videos like the one below, which are tied to chapters of the book."Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future." ~From The Launch Cycle Website
For some great ways to "launch" into some of your own design projects (or to fill that summer slump of bored kids in your own house), check out the Global Day of Design's Website. (As an aside, this year's Global Day of Design was April 26, 2016. Stay tuned as next year's may very well next April!)
And "circling back" to graduation... isn't that what graduation is all about? We go through life in a design cycle, coming to one end, which leads to a new beginning. The proverbial "When one door closes, another one (or a window) opens." We go through personal design and redesign all the time.
Life IS the ultimate design process.
Video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQWrHQwYTk; "LAUNCH" cycle image from http://thelaunchcycle.com/; grad cap pic from http://www.datemplate.com/post_graduation-diploma-and-cap-hat_254810/
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