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At the end of the presentation, the participants:
Understand the methodology of design thinking and how to apply it at all levels of the school.
Recognize key elements for the implementation of a school project that empowers students and allows them to develop their learning autonomously.
Use technology as a means of exploring problems and prototyping solutions.
Address relevant social problems from school and at all levels.
Block 1: The presentation begins by commenting on the current challenges of education, in relation to the connection between real life problems and including the voice of the students and their active learning. 10 minutes.
Block 2: It is explained how the application of a project based on the design thinking methodology manages to solve the issues described in block 1 and how it incorporates the resolution of social problems which are selected by the students. 20 minutes.
Block 3: Examples are presented on how this Innovation Program is roll out in elementary and secondary levels in a network of schools: what are the challenges we face? how do we face those challenges? what have we learned? what are our next steps? 20 minutes.
Block 4: A space to answer questions from the audience. 10 minutes.
- https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/edu-2019-0022/html
- https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/DATE/article/download/1758/1648
- https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/6326/Andrew%20Withell%20Final.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y