ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL demonstrates the power of meaningful instruction like design thinking. We created the D!Lab as one of many places for novel ideas, creativity, ingenuity, and innovation to thrive. We invite you to learn about the design process, the purpose of the D!Lab, and the human-centered focus of our students. Let’s design!
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We created the D!Lab as one of many places where novel ideas, creativity, ingenuity, and innovation thrive. We invite you to learn about, the design process, the purpose of the D!Lab and the human-centered focus of our students.
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In design thinking, students combine content with creative and critical thinking skills necessary to create products and systems that solve all sorts of problems. Schools should be the campus where students consider current technologies and the development of future ones as well. Design thinking expands the way students experience content. In so doing, a critical evaluation of past and present designs develops discriminating thinkers who both apply creative thinking and learn to innovate. In the minds of students resides the future, but as an example, let's enter through the past.
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One of my engineering and design students called the planning and execution of ideas- big brain work. Indeed. Deliberate moments of ideation, planning, making, iteration, and critique allow for "big brain" moments.
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As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right. Diego Rodriguez Telechea Either way, making prototypes is the right way to deepen the experience of design thinking.
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Ask students about the design thinking process... Their thoughts delight. Their practice inspires. What's your process?
