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Design thinking is a methodology for creative problem solving. You can use it to inform your own teaching practice, or you can teach it to your students as a framework for real-world projects. We believe that creative confidence comes from repeated practice using a human-centered creative process to solve problem scenarios called design challenges. After using the process on these challenges, people will have another tool, the design thinking process, to apply towards solving real life problems. Check out these tour modules we facilitate for students at the d.school. How to bring design thinking into your school
Design Thinking for Educators Workshop Schedule
Weekly assignments, posted on Monday mornings, can be done at any time during the week. Each Monday we will post a new assignment. Participants will use Edutopia.org and a Ning site to complete the assignments at any time during the week. The workshop exercises are designed to take roughly 2-5 hours/week. Registrants will receive a weekly email which covers that week's assignment with all the necessary links to resources. July 30 - August 3 (Week 1): Introduction to the Design Thinking Process What is Design Thinking?
Crowdsourcing your organization strategy, what’s to appreciate?
Every instrument has a role greater than just a part of the whole. Crowdsourcing relies on people to participate in a meaningful process as potential partners. In crowdsourcing people who were formally known as the customer now become the collaborator.
Welcome to the Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
Welcome to the d.school’s Virtual Crash Course resource page! We know not everyone can make a trip to the d.school to experience how we teach design thinking. So, we created this online version of one of our most frequently sought after learning tools.
Teaching Kids Design Thinking, So They Can Solve The World's Biggest Problems
You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it. ? Albert Einstein Assessment The test scores are out again. And once again, American kids aren't doing so well.
What is Design Thinking, Really
If you’re a businessperson or someone interested in understanding how to facilitate innovation, you’ve probably heard of “design thinking” by now. Coined by IDEO’s David Kelley, the term refers to a set of principles, from mindset to process, that can be applied to solve complex problems. I’ve seen articles lately ranging from those that highlight its potential, [Design Thinking for Social Innovation, How does design thinking give companies a competitive advantage?]
Design Thinking for Educators (Five-Week Virtual PD...
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What's Your Negotiation Strategy?
Successful businesses have a strategy in place for virtually everything they do. They spend huge amounts of resources creating, developing, and fine-tuning a marketing strategy, a product strategy, an HR strategy, a communication strategy, and a R&D strategy. Can you imagine Apple or Toyota operating without defining these strategies or setting a budget? It’s almost unthinkable. Nevertheless, in all the times I’ve asked, “How many people have a negotiation strategy?”
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. They then turned immediately to apply the design process to their own curriculum to take design thinking back to their schools.
Design Thinking
Thomas Edison created the electric lightbulb and then wrapped an entire industry around it. The lightbulb is most often thought of as his signature invention, but Edison understood that the bulb was little more than a parlor trick without a system of electric power generation and transmission to make it truly useful. So he created that, too.
3-D Negotiation: Playing the Whole Game
The Idea in Brief Why didn’t those last deals work out the way you expected? You brilliantly followed all the rules in negotiation manuals: You built enormous goodwill. You demonstrated astute cultural sensitivity.
Investigative Learning / Resources
Additional Resources Feel free to explore any of the work that has guided our Investigative Learning journey. We are evolving in our understanding of Best Practices and continually adding to our professional resources.
