Empathize
Students will conduct interviews with their peers and family members to explore current slang terms, gathering insights on their usage and meaning in different contexts, and commence their weekly reflections on the influence of social media on these evolving language trends.
Days 1 - 3
45 min over capacity (90 min available across 3 days)
Meet Real Slang Voices
Launch 60m
Empathy Artifacts Synthesis
Deliverable 75m
Define
Students will synthesize their research findings into clear, concise dictionary entries, ensuring each definition is linguistically accurate, culturally contextualized, and ready for peer feedback that will refine the entries for their modern slang dictionary.
Days 4 - 6
Define Slang Problem Space
Deliverable 90m
Ideate
Students will brainstorm and propose innovative ways to categorize and present emerging slang words in an online interactive dictionary format, collaborating in small groups to sketch out diverse ideas that reflect their cultural and social media research findings.
Days 7 - 10
Slang Dictionary Concepts
Deliverable 60m
Prototype
Students will collaboratively build and refine digital prototypes of their modern slang dictionaries, using peer and asynchronous feedback to ensure cultural relevance and clarity in their definitions, in preparation for final testing and presentation.
Days 11 - 15
Iterate Slang Prototypes
Deliverable 60m
Slang Testing Protocol
Deliverable 60m
Test/Present
Students will present their dictionaries of modern slang in a showcase event, engaging stakeholders and peers by demonstrating the evolution of language through interactive discussions, while gathering feedback that validates their work and informs final revisions.
Days 16 - 20
62 min over capacity (150 min available across 5 days)
Prototype Dictionary Booths
Deliverable 60m
Audience Testing Feedback
Deliverable 60m
Revise After Feedback
Deliverable 90m
Slang Dictionary Final Showcase
Assessment 2m