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Design Thinking in education
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It is composed of three fundamental pillars:
- Creativity: which is the ability to generate new ideas or concepts around a situation, which are considered original and at the same time, it is expected to be useful in its field or reason. Key questions to be more creative: What motivates us? What is your passion?
- Innovation: is the ability to bring an idea to reality.
Innovation = Opportunity + Creativity + Execution
- Empathy: it is key to understand the circumstances, problems and needs and to acquire knowledge and go deeper into what you want to accomplish.
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Design Thinking Steps
- Empathize: It consists of putting yourself in the other person's shoes. Listen more, talk less. What is needed in the world?
- Define: Seize the opportunity of how it can be done better and in an efficient way. What is the problem?
- Ideate: Generate ideas of what we can do. What can we do?
- Prototyping: This phase involves building, testing and iterating - how can we do it?
- Testing: How can we improve it?
Design Thinking for educators
The book Design Thinking for Educators is the translation of the Design Thinking for Educators toolkit. In it, teachers, educators and pedagogues can find a guide to the application of this methodology. It includes a series of challenges to improve different aspects related to the relationship between the student and the space, classmates, curriculum and teachers.
This book compiles the following phases: discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation and evolution.
Design thinking for the development of skills in students.
This methodology allows students to develop their empathy, because they have to refine their perception and be able to put themselves in the place of others in order to generate meaningful solutions.
"When working on a project, the most important thing is not the result. It's the learning. And, this ends up generating great results.
Through different phases of the creative process, the student also develops his or her capacity for ideation. The teacher should encourage students to have real and enriching brainstorming sessions. In which no idea should be discarded initially. And in which the student develops his creativity enjoying the process and without fear of error.
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