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In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. It was called, simply and descriptively, design thinking.

Few institutions illustrate this point better than education. Because almost every adult has experienced school, it has created a shared mental model for what education should resemble. A confluence ...

Design has to be systemic and savvy to community needs and offer real-time benefits to people. “In the social space, ...

The first thing to know about design thinking is that it is not a single set of rules. A project using design thinking can be executed in countless ways, because it’s not about developing a product or ...

For those who are familiar with the global design firm IDEO, a few words might come to mind. Consulting. Design thinking. K-12 and higher education? Yes, IDEO has indeed carved out a space for itself ...

This post is by Amelia Peterson, Renee Rinehart, Andrew Volkert, and Max Yurkofsky, doctoral students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Last month, Jal Mehta wrote on this blog ...

The DACRC’s MakeRight initiative teaches prisoners design thinking. While many prison programs teach technical skills–and, historically, have exploited incarcerated individuals for labor–MakeRight is ...

Aquiet transformation is taking shape in Indian classrooms, where the traditional reliance on rote learning is gradually ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...