Design Thinking in Education

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A conversation on education and the skills the job market demands.

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This video is a TEDTalk about design thinking and how it can be used in any aspect of life. The speaker in the video is a former teacher , now designer. She talks about how she utilized design thinking in her classroom and the impact it has in her classroom.

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Another classroom example of design thinking.....

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XQ Super School & Most Likely to Succeed

While there are biases in how the Most Likely to Succeed documentary presents the school, and XQ Super School has detractors as well, they are two interesting and seemingly positive revolutionary educational examples.

https://xqsuperschool.org/

https://teddintersmith.com/mltsfilm/

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A nice TEDTalk on the use of technology to change the way we work in classrooms. Enjoy!

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This is a graphic displaying what to do encourage convergent versus divergent creative thing at work. Here is the link to the site that explains more about these kinds of creative thinking at work. https://creativeemergence.typepad.com/the_fertile_unknown/2010/09/facilitating-creative-process.html

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https://cyberlabe.tumblr.com/post/159255686518/design-thinking-101 

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While reading Design Your Life, I wanted to look more into the resources that Stanford offers in design thinking. I thought this page and especially the PDFs at the bottom helped give a clearer idea for what to expect us to do on May 18th.

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This is a short video of design thinking in education in India. It is a nice take on global perspectives for how design thinking and including students in the process empowers them. There are more videos about this on this page: https://www.edutopia.org/video/empowering-students-design-thinking

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Interesting Article on how to Implement Design Thinking in Personal Life

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/design-thinking-for-a-better-you/

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I was reading someone else's post while looking up more information related to our readings and came across this YouTube channel. It seems like David Lee has a good grasp on what Design Thinking is a really challenges the ideas that traditionally has been set up in the school systems. I especially was interested in his video about how design thinking helps to personalize learning. My school currently is trying a new curriculum that claims it personalizes learning, but the staff if struggling to figure out how to correctly implement it. A lot of the ideals pushed in this new curriculum are completely against traditional learning and we've have little training on how to correctly teach through it. David Lee's videos made me more assured in what Design Thinking can do to help my school in this process to help personalize learning.

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Nice short video of high school teacher's being a part of STEM curriculum planning. 

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I was listening to the latest 99% Invisible podcast -- what perfect timing! It's about Froebel and his innovative approach to childhood education through using simple objects as tools to think abstractly and creatively. I love this flow between interdisciplinary teaching through play and observation and how it disseminates to young learners. This also got me thinking about a section of part 1 on how our culture infantilizes young people. Maybe there needs to be a shift in my language from "learner" to "designer" -- though now they seem so interchangeable?

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Froebel's Gifts - 99% Invisible

In the late 1700s, a young man named Freidrich Froebel was on track to become an architect when a friend convinced him to pursue a path toward education instead. And in changing course, Froebel arguably ended up having more influence on the world of architecture and design than any single architect — all because Friedrich

I was listening to the latest 99% Invisible podcast -- what perfect timing! It's about Froebel and his innovative approach to childhood education through using simple objects as tools to think abstractly and creatively. I love this flow between interdisciplinary teaching through play and observation and how it disseminates to young learners. 

This also got me thinking about a section of part 1 on how our culture infantilizes young people. Maybe there needs to be a shift in my language from "learner" to "designer" -- though now they seem so interchangeable?