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) ...

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 ...

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before.

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 ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Design thinking is all the rage. Design thinking offers a deliberate, structured process for solving problems and fostering innovation. It provides a methodology that can be adopted by academic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about leaders, marketing and business storytelling. To advance his mission, Seidel is notoriously willing to experiment ...

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 ...

Do you know what design thinking is? Your answer to that question will depend largely on where you sit. Design thinking is often centrally associated with the fabled design and consulting firm IDEO, ...