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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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Bran Ferren is defined by a long series of descriptors. Here is what appears in Wikipedia: a technologist, artist, architectural designer, vehicle designer, engineer, lighting and sound designer, visual effects artist, scientist, lecturer, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. Some list! When you watch his TED Talk, you will see why he could easily be defined in…
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