Tony Wagner. Chalkable. On Being with Krista Tippett: religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas -- on public radio and online [OnBeing.org] Design Thinking for Educators. IDEO | 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. The students—an eclectic group with a budding musicologist, a neuroscientist, a journalist and two future lawyers—paired off to interview each other about anything that made them unhappy when giving gifts.
Before long they were whirling in a melee of ideas summoned on the spot. "Ah, so the gift involves magic! " Plunged into this and similar exercises, "you kind of feel like you should be intimidated . . . that it's going to be hard," Gupta says. The d.school's defining mission is to foment personal transformation. Word is out. MEI – Mindful Education Institute. Home | HASTAC. THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education. Flipped Learning | Turning Learning on Its Head!
TechTV – From the Ground Up: A Comprehensive Systems Approach to the Redesign of Engineering Education. Institute of Design | K-12 Lab. 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. Projects that were seeded during the workshop included such diverse concepts as a Second Grade Fairy Tale unit, an Empathy Tea for New Teachers, and a Design a Backpack Activity for 5th Grade Parents. To learn more about the K-12 Lab and what they’ve learned in two years of prototypes in classrooms and informal learning programs, check out their newly launched website. Innovation Excellence. K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work | Edutopia.