STUDENT SCHOOLBAG IS HEAVY ( WEEK 3)

Proposal for Design Process

Group​​: LOL

Members​​: Jessica (Leader)            

 Gaby (Scribe)

 Jingxi

 Pauline

Topic​​​: Children’s schoolbag is too heavy

Description​​:

Nowadays majority of children who go to school face the problem of heavy schoolbags. Surveys have shown that considerable number of students from primary to secondary schools often carry bags that are more than 10% body weight. The negative consequences have been yielded such as pain in back, shoulders and neck and in some cases scoliosis for young children. The first step of approaching this was to identify the stakeholders of it and continued by considering all possible factors that may have contributed in creating the problem.

Stake holders:​​​ Possible factors:

- Students​​- Availability of good school bag quality with reasonable price in the market

- Parents​​​- School curriculum

- Teachers​​- Book sizes and weight

- School​​​- Teachers and parents control on the children

- Students’ attitude

Empathizing was the next step to gain a better understanding of each stakeholder’s perspective of this problem. To research into specific problems, we created framed design question to identify possible problems for which solutions can be designed to solve the problems. Here is the list of our design questions:

- What is the availability of ergonomically designed bag in the market?

- What is the price range of ergonomics school bags?

- Why are school books’ designs bulky?

- What is the percentage of school providing locker facility or book/laptop rental facility?

Research Sources

Online article

Yap, Eve. ‘Kids’ Weighty Problem’. The Straits Times.  12 Jan. 2014. Accessed 18 Jan. 2014

STUDENT SCHOOLBAG IS HEAVY ( WEEK 2)

Hello, my name is Job , I am a second grade student of junior middle school , everyday I have to ge up very early then take number 109 bus five stops and change into MRT after that ,everyday I feel very tired , not only for a long way to school ,but also my school bag is very heavy , I have many books and study materials in my school bag . However , I wanna look good , so I buy a popular bag , which is made in leath .

Question : Why I have a lot of lessons
                  Why I have classes very ealy in the morning
                  Why I have mang books for each lesson
                  Why I have to finish my teamwork after my homework
                  Why my home is far from my school
                  Why I have bring my homework to school everyday
                  Why I feel very tired everyday
                  Why my leath school bag is very heavy
                  Why I have bring wy books and materials back to home
                  Why I have homework everyday after class
                  Why I have to take MRT go to school and back to home
                    ...

STUDENGT SCHOOL BAG IS HEAVY (week 1)

  Our topic is about 'student school bag is heavy' , as for this topic we get 7 different points(students behaviour , parents , bag;s quality , school facility , transportations , teachers , curriculum).
   In class we get a speech about this topic ,I talk about student behaviour , as for hard working student a lot of them put their study materials and books in good order , and they always have tuition class , so their bags become more and more heavier . As for lazy student , because they are too lazy , so they just put everything in their school bag , and their bags also become more and more heavier.
    For this speech ,I feel very nervous , and  my team give me a hand make me feel confident , pretty thanks for my team mates.