Design Thinking for Schools

Design Thinking for Schools

Design thinking is a problem-solving mindset that can be adapted to improve experiences in the education sector. The five stages of design thinking process can help teachers, students, and parents enhance in-class and out-of-class experiences. Tapping into empathy, establishing a clear definition of the challenge, generating solutions through ideation, prototyping solutions, and testing those solutions with input from stakeholders are the key stages. Educators can access several resources like DTK12Chat, Teacher's Guild, and various toolkits and guides to help implement design thinking in schools.

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