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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Many good ideas are born on the back of a napkin.... the first MRI machine, JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels, and the first Southwest Airline routes. What is your back of the napkin idea? Pick an object and sketch one funny, one real, one abstract and one use for the object.
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With this cork animal challenge, design thinking simultaneously built CAD skills, exacting measurement, and creativity in the service of making learning visible. (Note: the red coral is part of a pre-1960 collection for purposes of teaching).
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Paint paddle creativity. Creativity can be enhanced using new materials, odd shapes and surprising formats. Students imagine art installations or games that use paint paddles.
