Design Thinking for Educators | InnovationTraining.org

Design thinking is the process of understanding your audience and developing solutions or ideas based on what they need, rather than what you want to create. This perspective can help educators inspire creativity and innovation in their students. The five resources mentioned in this article include Ideo’s design thinking for educators toolkit, Business Innovation Factory’s examples of how a school used design thinking to innovate their curriculum, Stanford d.school’s resources to help educators, various readings on design thinking, and Edutopia’s design thinking video collection. These resources can be helpful in implementing design thinking in the classroom to prepare students for a future heavily focused on user experience and innovative solutions to customer problems.