January 26, 2010

Essential Education: Tim Brown on Creativity and Play

Jan 26, 2010 6:50:39 PM | Creativity, Video

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Influence Education Through Design Thinking The pinnacle of educational design seems to be the plastic chair. Does that chair say something about our educational system? Maybe it says, “This as good as it gets.” Or it might say, “We do what we have always done because it works.” Possibly it says, “The reliability of the past is more important than the validity of our current situation.” But what if we allowed design thinking to create a new chair, a new system? Which would make the most positive influence on behaviors in the classroom? Which one do our students deserve to spend the majority of their waking hours as a child? What is our school environment saying about our priorities? Which would you rather spend your time in learning? Which would you rather sit in?
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Education Design Thinking- The Balance of Exploitation and Exploration Roger Martin argues that what is needed is balance between exploration and exploitation found in Design Thinking. “The design thinker therefore, enables the organization to balance exploration and exploitation, invention of business and administration of business, and originality and mastery.” The education design thinker enable a school to balance finding new and better ways increasing student achievement and delivering effective instruction, while mastering, embedding, and refining the effective methods that are in use. Schools that get better at what they do while finding better ways to do it. That is educational design thinking. That is Education Innovation.

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