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Do you struggle to get your students to pay attention? Do you feel alone in your work as an educator? Do you feel that communication with parents is not effective? Do you have some other challenge that you have no clue how to tackle? Well, Design Thinking might just be the tool you need.
Workshop Description:
Workshop Description:
Design Thinking is a problem-solving approach used by designers, companies, countries, and now educators!
It is particularly suited to tackle challenges that have the following variables in common: they do not have a straightforward solution and their solution involves human beings. In other words, just the kind of challenges that educators face at school.
In this workshop, we will explore the Design Thinking process and use it to start solving a challenge at your school. Design thinking will become an elemental approach to address challenges that you will come upon in your daily classroom and school life.
Primary Audience: Teachers to all age groups, Educators with leadership responsibilities
Length of time: 9.5 hours plus breaks, given over two or three days (3 to 5 hours a day)
Workshop Details
Workshop Details
Session 1: Defining the Challenge and Exploring Empathy Tools
We will discuss the type of challenges that design thinking is suitable for and define our challenge(s) in a way that opens to us opportunities for creative solutions. We will then explore design thinking tools that allow us to understand the current situation and the unarticulated needs of the stakeholders involved in our solution. These “empathy tools” include ethnography, in-depth interviews, and projective techniques. Finally, teachers will start designing empathy tools for their challenge. Teachers can give these tools a try with actual stakeholders.
Session 2: Defining the Design Criteria and Building Prototypes
We will discuss teachers’ findings and explore “mind-mapping.” Through this tool, teachers can discover the design criteria that will be used to build the final solution. We will then explore designing trigger questions for brainstorming activities and reflect on prototyping. Finally, we will discuss ways to capture user feedback during the last stage of Design Thinking.
Session 3: Reflecting on the Design Thinking Stages
Now that participants have a first-hand experience with Design Thinking, we will reflect on the different stages of Design Thinking that we went through during our workshop, namely What Is?, What if?, What Wows?, and What Works?. We will then go over the different Design Thinking techniques that we used, check out a few cases around the world where Design Thinking was utilized, and discuss some final thoughts.
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