design thinking
Difference Making

Design Thinking for Student Ownership of Learning

Guest Author

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.
EdTech

Building Stronger Innovation-Minded Educators with The Teachers Guild

moss

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.
Personalized Learning

Introducing and Deepening Design Thinking with Teacher Leaders

Lindsey Own

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.
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SXSWedu: Design Thinking, Learning, and Teaching

moss

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.
Personalized Learning

Design Thinking: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation in Education

Guest Author

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.
Ed Policy

Improvement vs. Innovation

Tom Vander Ark

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.
Personalized Learning

Design Thinking in Schools: An Emerging Movement Building Creative Confidence in our Youth

Guest Author

As we help today’s students build their foundation of core academic knowledge and skills, we also need to look at the ways we are helping our youth build their confidence in their abilities to create. From name badges to state economies, we need our youth to know that they can empathically and intelligently shape the world. We need to help them develop the tools to create change.