Twitter, much like Facebook, has the ability to set most people on opposite, potentially warring paths – you either absolutely LOVE IT, or absolutely HATE IT. To top it all, with the great debate surrounding the use of social media in schools, it must seem callous of me to recommend that schools start Tweeting and yet, here I am, to tell you that Every School should have a Twitter account and here are 5 reasons why. Via Megan Townes 
Mission: Encourage life-long learning, promote alternative learning environments and equip you with 21st Century skills...
Introduction Video on Design Thinking in School- working with Ewan McIntosh and Tom Barrett on action learning project 2011.
Via Danielle Carter 
Wouldn't it be great to link any object directly to a 'video memory' or an article of text describing its history or background? Tales of Things allows just that with a quick and easy way to link any media to any object via small printable tags known as QR codes. How about tagging a building, your old antique clock or perhaps that object you're about to put on eBay? 
Design Thinking is a mindset that allows for forms of collaboration in interdisciplinary teams with amazing results. It is movement and suppleness. 
A project on the design of higher education learning spaces with La Trobe University as lead institution, Charles Sturt University, Apple and Kneeler Design Architects. 
Innovative design crosses over all aspects of education. The American Society for Innovation Design in Education, or ASIDE, seeks to infuse curriculum with new approaches to teaching and thinking. 
Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. That kind of optimism is well needed in education. 
If the job is for a dry cleaner, go to a dry cleaner. And stay there until you have something that you honestly think is interesting to say about dry cleaning - Empathy realised!!!!! 
Change by design - how design thinking transforms organisations - http://t.co/mbVSuCOT thanks to @ingmardrewing... 
Social is the big thing in learning: the aim, to capture the energy and interaction, the engagement and involvement that social brings. It's a tricky game to play well. Social spaces are essentiall... 
Professor Stephen Heppell is amazing to listen to, and even better to talk with: his passion for learning and improving the learning environments is both an inspiring and humbling experience. You can’t help but be sucked into his world, to follow his often random thought process in the most roundabout yet logical way. Why do we make it so difficult to make the kind of changes that are often just so simple? His viewpoint always has the students central to the plan, to the scheme, to the future. On October 25, 2011 I was a guest presenter at the Education Environments Symposium held at the Dekalb Office Customer Experience Center in Alpharetta, GA. The title of the presentation was, "Learning Spaces by Design- How we can revitalize teaching, learning, and collaboration." |
There are online tools out there in cybersapce that allow you to collaboratively draw and create art together in real time. A big part of web 2.0 tools and cloud computing is the ability to collaborate and create a piece of work ... 
QR codes are convenient for smartphone users because scanning the code directs the phone’s browser to a specific website without the phone user having to type. Via callooh 
Our students should be learning to think disruptively. Luke Williams says that Disruptive Thinking is being taught in design schools; that there they make the ordinary unexpected. This is not enough. Disruptive Thinking needs to be experienced by all students and accepted by all teachers.
Tales of Things is really an amazing tool. It allows you to literally attach a story to any object. Here’s how it works. 
Designers have traditionally focused on enhancing the look and functionality of products. Recently, they have begun using design techniques to tackle more complex problems, such as finding ways to provide low-cost healthcare throughout the world. 
Innovative design crosses over all aspects of education. The American Society for Innovation Design in Education, or ASIDE, seeks to infuse curriculum with new approaches to teaching and thinking. The vision statement of the school is simple but powerful: We nurture each other, we inspire each other, we empower each other." 
In this world, designers can continue to create extraordinary value. They are the people who have, or could have, the laterality needed to solve problems, the sensing skills needed to hear what the world wants, and the databases required to build for the long haul and the big trajectories. Designers can be definers, making the world more intelligible, more habitable. But this won’t happen if, confronted by the inevitable difficulty of the early days, they take their balls and go home. 
Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. “It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” 
Originally posted on Edelman Digital Visual storytelling is nothing new. We only need to look to the earliest signs of humanity for proof—simple paintings on the walls of caves tell the story that people are a visual tribe. 
2.0 technologies are enabling technologies that connect us with each other, facilitating communication and collaboration. Although aimed at business, there is information here that is equally valuable for education.... |
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