As mindset and toolset, as pedagogy and professional learning, as improvement and innovation framework, design thinking has come center stage in U.S. K-12 education. Sandy Speicher (@sandyspeicher) ...

Last week was a big week for design thinking in education, both in the field and for me personally. In the wider world, Edutopia is hosting a free course on Design Thinking for Educators which ...

Creative problem-solving used to take place on the playground during recess, when worksheets temporarily disappeared and teachers stood at a distance. There, learning happened through exploration and ...

It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that ...

Love it or hate it, many teachers have seen just how much technology has changed the landscape of education. Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from ...

For the last few years, design thinking has been in vogue. I’ve worked for three years as a member of the team designing and running +Acumen courses. In 2013, we launched an “Introduction to ...

At a recent teaching conference in Richmond, Virginia, a session on “design thinking” in education drew a capacity crowd. Two middle-school teachers demonstrated how they had used the concept to plan ...

The Independent Day School of Middlefield is the state's first institution to adopt a new problem solving initiative called design thinking. Design thinking is a method of problem solving that ...

Creating makerspaces and incorporating them into schools involves more than coming up with project ideas. Typically, when schools add makerspaces, they’re also looking to shift their education goals ...

Nick Kelly works for QUT and has received grant funding from the Queensland College of Teachers and the Queensland Department of Education and Training. Jeremy Kerr works for QUT and has received ...