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Is this be a fundamental question that should guide our approach to designing 21st Century schools? If the answer to the question is students are born to be taught, then we will design school, curriculum, space and schedules, according to the needs of educators. Being taught implies that students are “passive bystanders” who pass through…
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Hugh Herr, an MIT professor and avid rock climber, lost his legs in 1982 as a result of frostbite from a rock climbing accident. He is leading the effort to revolutionize bionic limb prototypes so that we no longer think about people who have lost limbs as being disabled. His goal is to eradicate the…
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On Edutopia’s Social and Emotional Blog, a recent piece, Teaching Students to Embrace Mistakes, was written by Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien. Thinking of some of our Design Teams in Atlanta K12 Design Challenge (@AK12DC), exploring the idea of how to change school culture so that parents, students and teachers think differently about the…
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Here is what 85 teachers valued most about the design thinking process they learned over the course of five months @AK12DC. With the help of a facilitator from Stanford’s d.school we took them through the entire design thinking process. They engaged in empathy, they developed point-of-view statements, they ideated their POVs, they prototyped their ideas…
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NPR’s All Things Considered aired a story, It was the best of sentences…, was a short and interesting story. What goes into making a sentence beautiful? What goes into making a sentence memorable? This program briefly addresses the answer to those two controversial questions. People interviewed on the program indicate that finding agreement on those…
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