Our PLT shifted to Design Thinking this month. I used the Extraordinaire Design Studio game to allow teachers to experience the Design Thinking process during our PLT today.This will be one of three sessions that I facilitate over the next few months!
Design Thinking in Education. Design Thinking is a mindset and approach to learning, collaboration, and problem-solving. In practice, the design process is a structured framework for identifying challenges, gathering information, generating potential solutions, refining ideas, and testing solutions
The Extraordinaire Design Studio game allowed teachers to experience the process of design thinking as they worked together to collaborate and pitch their product. In our next session, teachers will begin to plan activities that incorporate design thinking into their teaching.
Presentation below
Session 1 - January 31st 2017 - Also posted in PLT Google classroom
Feedback from teachers was very positive that the "pitches" each team made
were collaborative and creative!