Progress New Facilities
Progress New Ways of Presenting
New Technology Progress
New ways of organizing
Progress New Energy
Progress A New Point of View
Inquiry/Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, problem, or challenge. A New Approach
Student Driven Problem Solving Creative Authentic Interactive Collaborative research engaging challenging investigative active fun
Established Proven Existing New Innovative Undiscovered Experimental Inventive Project Based Learning PBL
Teaching Kids to Look
Design thinking is a process, applicable to all walks of life, of creating new and innovative ideas and solving problems.
Empathy Looking around and identifying problems that exist Poor Kayla! She cannot participate for a while. She has an ice pack that may drip on the books that are on her work surface! She’s missing valuable time in class.
Define Craft your question that will address the problem identified. Collaboration is key! Can we invent a container to hold ice for bo0-boos that will not leak or sweat?
Ideate Come up with ideas that could answer or address your problem/question Brainstorming calls for creatively addressing the situation. The more ideas you have, the better!
Prototype Create a model based on your design.
Test Return to your original group for time to put your prototype into action. Collect data to fine tune your plan.
Wallace and Grommit’s World of Cracking Ideas D School at Stanford’s “Use our Methods”page A K-12 Design Thinking initiative of the Clinton Foundation