Tony Wagner. Chalkable. On Being with Krista Tippett: religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Design Thinking for Educators. A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm. Sparks Fly - March/April 2011. Can imagination be taught?
Evidently, because the d.school’s innovation hothouse is changing the way people think. A first-year graduate student in the management science and engineering program, Asha Gupta had barely started Design Garage, a course aptly characterized as an "imagination dunk tank"—and she was getting soaked. Gupta and her classmates were challenged to develop a prototype that would improve the gift-giving experience. They had 54 minutes. MEI – Mindful Education Institute. HASTAC. THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. Turning Learning on Its Head!
TechTV – From the Ground Up: A Comprehensive Systems Approach to the Redesign of Engineering Education. Institute of Design. The d.school’s K-12 Lab team is abuzz with learnings from the recent DT2Schools Workshop.
The workshop brought together teachers and administrators from 8 different schools, including two teachers from the Lab’s international partner Riverside School who came all the way from India. In addition to schools, representatives from Teach for America’s curriculum design team also attended. Teachers were immersed in design thinking with two cycles through our design process. Innovation Excellence. K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work.