design thinking
Design Thinking in Action
By Michael Niehoff: Design thinking helps create future innovators and breakthrough thinkers. Michael shares a few examples of what it can look like at the high school and elementary level.
Design Thinking for Personalized Learning: 5 Strategies for Effective Whole School Design
We need to encourage schools and districts to think differently when it comes to personalized learning especially when it comes to whole school design. Here are five things to keep in mind as you seek to transform the way that you do school.
Design Thinking for Student Ownership of Learning
By: Sara Matlock. The 24 Hour Think Challenge, organized by a student led non-profit in Idaho called One Stone, brought together 150 high school juniors from across southwest Idaho to tackle issues facing education in the 21st Century.
Building Stronger Innovation-Minded Educators with The Teachers Guild
IDEO’s Teachers Guild is an open, collaborative platform that engages educators in design thinking, with the goal of inspiring new and creative ideas for school communities. Within the site, ideas are built in response to a challenge question posed by hosts, as users move through each of the phases of the design process while working on their ideas.
Introducing and Deepening Design Thinking with Teacher Leaders
Design thinking has helped me tremendously in understanding how to deeply probe multiple perspectives and causes in a situation and/or problem before tackling it - a valuable skill for leadership and inclusivity. That's why I led two design thinking workshops at this year's ECET2-Puget Sound.
Reframe Problems as Opportunities to be Creative
By: Elsa Randolph. We LOVE teacher bloggers. Especially those who are student-centered, innovative, and driven in everything they do. Moss Pike is one of those teachers.
SXSWedu: Design Thinking, Learning, and Teaching
By: Moss Pike. Thanks to the mutual exchange of ideas at SXSWedu, more educators are starting to embrace the possibilities and new thinking that entrepreneurs can add to the conversation, in taking on more of a design mindset.
Design Thinking Course Trains Future EdLeaders
Reflecting on our visit to UW’s Danforth Program that working to transform principal leadership training to create Deeper Learning experiences for emerging EdLeaders.
Design Thinking: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation in Education
By: Sandy Speicher. We tend to think first about the needs of the system and create solutions from there. But what if we looked first to the needs of people, and then designed ways the system could meet its goals by serving these needs? This is the heart of how design thinking gets to innovative solutions.
Improvement vs. Innovation
Improvement is playing for singles and doubles. Innovation in swinging for the fences. EdLeaders need to lead community conversations that create the right balance of the two.